Aurelia Campbell (PhD, 2011) was awarded the 2022 Bei Shan Tang Monograph Prize in Chinese Art Historyby the Association for Asian Studies for her monograph, What the Emperor Built: Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming. Her work was published in June 2020 and focuses on the Yongle emperor's imperial palaces in Beijing, a Daoist architectural complex on Mount Wudang, and a Buddhist temple on the Sino-Tibetan frontier to demonstrate how the siting, design, and use of his palaces and temples helped cement his authority and legitimize his usurpation of power.
What the Emperor Built was also awarded Honorable Mention in the 2022 Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Awardby the Society for Architectural Historians for its "outstanding research on architecture and infrastructure built during the rule of Ming emperor Yongle in the early fifteenth century."