Aurelia Campbell, PhD, Promoted to Associate Professor of Art History with Tenure

Professor Stephanie Leone, Chair of the Art, Art History and Film Department, recently announced the tenure and promotion of Professor Aurelia Campbell to Associate Professor of Art History.

Professor Campbell is an art historian of China, with a particular focus on the Yuan and Ming dynasties (ca. 1200-1600). Her most recent research has centered on imperial architecture of the early fifteenth century. This is the subject of a number of her articles and book chapters, as well as her first book, What the Emperor Built: Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming (University of Washington Press, 2020), which focuses on the construction projects of the famous Yongle emperor. She is especially interested in the relationship between the imperial court and outlying regions and thus looks closely at the networks (craftsmen, materials, edicts, officials, precious objects, religious leaders) that connected them. She is engaged in several ongoing research projects, including an examination of imperially patronized Tibetan Buddhist stupas in Beijing. Her research has been supported through several grants and fellowships, including from the Millard Meiss Publication Fund, the James Geiss Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Asian Cultural Council. Since 2018 she has been involved in the creation of an English dictionary of Chinese architectural history terms in collaboration with scholars from Vanderbilt University and Southeast University in Nanjing, and during the 2016-2017 academic year she was a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany.