[1] Her paternal grandfather, Herman Clarence Nixon, was a political scientist at Vanderbilt University and a member of the Southern Agrarians.
[2] She specialises in sexuality and aggression in art since 1945, with particular reference to feminism and gender politics.
[2] Nixon was a fellow at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, and a Terra Foundation for American Art Senior Scholar in 2007.
[3] Nixon married Gregory D. Smith, a direct descendant of Stephen A. Douglas, in 1995.
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