David Campbell | |
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Born | Perth, Western Australia | 15 August 1961
Nationality | Australian |
Alma mater | Australian National University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Political scientist |
Institutions | Durham University, England University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England |
Website | www |
David Campbell (born 15 August 1961)[1] is an Australian political scientist. He is known for his writing on photography[2] and post-realism.
David Campbell graduated with a PhD from the Australian National University in 1990.
From 1997 to 2004 he was Professor of International Politics at Newcastle University (formally University of Newcastle upon Tyne) in England.[3][4] At the university he was the project manager for the Culture Lab, a four million pound centre for digital media and creative practice, it opened in 2006.
His publications include National Deconstruction: Violence, Identity and Justice in Bosnia in 1998. The International Forum Bosnia named it 'Book of the Year 1999',[5] as the best English-language publication dealing with Bosnia and Herzegovina. The book was translated for publication in Sarajevo in 2003.[5]
Between 2004 and 2010 he was Professor of Cultural and Political Geography at Durham University.
By 2005, Campbell's research had increasingly focused on particular elements of visual culture. In particular, he concentrated on photography representing famine, atrocity, and war. He was one of the curators for the Imagining Famine photography exhibition. It opened at The Guardian's newsroom in London, in August 2005.[6]
In 2008 he completed a project on the visual economy of HIV/AIDS as a security issue.[7]
In January 2016, he became manager of communications and marketing for World Press Photo in Amsterdam.[8]
He has also worked for the Australian Senate, Johns Hopkins University and Keele University.[when?]
Campbell is Honorary Professor of Geography at Durham University in the UK. He is also Honorary Professor in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia and a member of the Durham Centre for Advanced Photography Studies.[9]
David Campbell; b. in Perth, Australia, 8/15/61