Henry M. and Elizabeth P. Wiesenfeld Professorship

Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences

History of ArtInterdisciplinarySociology

Established in 2006 by the estate of Henry M. and Elizabeth P. Wiesenfeld

HENRY M. WIESENFELD, A&S 1928, was a Baltimore native and successful businessman. During his senior year at Johns Hopkins, Mr. Wiesenfeld assumed management of his family’s saddlery and sporting goods business upon his father’s death. Under Mr. Wiesenfeld’s leadership, the company continued to prosper. Eventually, he closed its store at Howard and Baltimore streets but continued to operate a mail-order saddlery business. He sold the business in the early 1960s and became comptroller for a local printing firm.

Mr. Wiesenfeld attributed his philanthropy to Johns Hopkins University to his deeply held belief in the importance of higher education. He was profoundly grateful for his own education at Johns Hopkins and the impact it had on his life. Another possible motivation for his gift was the special history between his grandfather and Mr. Johns Hopkins. Mr. Hopkins once extended an interest-free loan to Mr. Wiesenfeld’s grandfather, enabling him to re-establish himself following the Civil War.

Mr. Wiesenfeld died on December 2, 2004; his wife, ELIZABETH P. WIESENFELD, died in 1990. The two professorships honoring Mr. and Mrs. Wiesenfeld were established through their estates.

Held by Ho-fung Hung

HO-FUNG HUNG is the Henry M. and Elizabeth P. Wiesenfeld Professor in Political Economy in the Department of Sociology and the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of several award-winning books, including Protest with Chinese Characteristics (Columbia 2011), The China Boom: Why China Will not Rule the World (Columbia 2015), City on the Edge: Hong Kong under Chinese Rule (Cambridge 2022), and Clash of Empires: From “Chimerica” to the “New Cold War” (Cambridge 2022). His works also appear in American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Annual Review of Sociology, Review of International Political Economy, Studies in Comparative and International Development, Development and Change, among others. His academic publications have been translated into at least 12 different languages. His analyses of the Chinese and global political economy have been cited or featured in major media outlets around the world, such as The New York Times, Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, CNN, NPR, CNBC, Financial Times, BBC, The Guardian, the Telegraph, Die Presse, Strait Times, Chosun Ilbo, People’s Daily, Caixin, South China Morning Post, and Folha de S. Paulo.

Held by Stephen J. Campbell

Dr. Stephen Campbell’s research and publication in the field of pre-modern Italian art have dealt with the political and social role of art in pre-modern cities; the Renaissance literature and theory of art; artistic constructions of the body, sex and gender; the histories of collecting and canon formation, and more recently the geographies of art in Italy and the Mediterranean.

His recent books are The Endless Periphery. Towards a Geography of Art in Lorenzo Lotto’s Italy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019) and Andrea Mantegna: Humanist Aesthetics, Faith, and the Force of Images (Turnhout: Brepols, 2020). The Routledge Companion to Global Renaissance Art, a volume with an international team of 47 contributors which he co-edited with Stephanie Porras, appeared in 2024. His book Leonardo Da Vinci and the Fictions of Biography will appear in 2025 from Princeton University Press. He is also the co-author, with Michael W. Cole, of Renaissance Art in Italy 1400-1600. London, Thames and Hudson, 2011; second expanded edition 2017, which has also appeared in Italian and in Japanese. His other books are The Cabinet of Eros. Renaissance Mythological Painting and the Studiolo of Isabella d’Este (New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2006) and Cosmè Tura of Ferrara. Style, Politics and the Renaissance City 1450-1495 (New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1997).

He has curated and co-organized several exhibitions: Cosmè Tura: Painting and Design in Renaissance Ferrara (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 2002); Artifice and Illusion: Carlo Crivelli of Venice (also at The Gardner, 2015), and The Renaissance Nude 1400-1530 (The Getty Museum and Royal Academy, London, 2018-19).

Dr. Campbell was educated at Trinity College, Dublin (BA 1985), the University of North Carolina (MA 1987), and Johns Hopkins University (1993). Before joining the faculty of Johns Hopkins in 2002, he taught at Case Western Reserve University (1993-94), the University of Michigan (1995-1999), and the University of Pennsylvania (1999-2002). In 1993, he published a book for a general audience on the Great Irish Famine of 1847-1851, with a preface by President of Ireland Mary Robinson. He has held post-doctoral fellowships at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1994-95); the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti in Florence (1999-2000); and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery, Washington (2005-06); The Clark Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 2016.