Mary Campbell
Mary Campbell is an associate professor of American art history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. A lawyer as well as an art historian, she works on the intersections of race, gender, and the law in the arts of the United States. Her first book, Charles Ellis Johnson and the Erotic Mormon Image (University of Chicago Press, 2016), received the support of the Stanford Humanities Center and the American Council of Learned Societies. Her current book project, the first art historical monograph on the work of the painter Beauford Delaney (1901– 1979), was supported by the UTK Humanities Center and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Campbell received her JD from Yale Law School and her PhD from Stanford University. She clerked for the Honorable Sharon Prost of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and is a member of the New York Bar Association.