She was a fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School in 1992.
In this essay, she attempts to proclaim the meanings of agency by referencing Sojourner Truth at the 1851 woman's rights convention.
[3] Another significant work Campbell contributed to is Deeds Done in Words: Presidential Rhetoric and the Genre of Governance, which was co-written with Kathleen Hall Jamieson and published in 1990.
In these two works, Campbell and Jamieson create a monumental framework for analyzing the rhetoric surrounding presidential oratory.
[5] Due to her success, the Karlyn Kohrs Campbell Award is presented to the author(s) of the Top Paper submitted to the Rhetorical Theory and Criticism Interest Group at the Central States Communication Association Convention.