David Campbell Professor of Cultural and Political Geography in the Department of Geography at Durham University in the UK. He also serves as Associate Director for the Durham Centre for Advanced Photography Studies. Between 1997-2004 he was Professor of International Politics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne

University of Newcastle upon Tyne

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, England

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David Campbell graduated with a PhD from the Australian National University

Australian National University

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 in 1990, and has worked in the Australian Senate

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, as well as holding academic posts at the Johns Hopkins University

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 in the US and Keele University

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and Newcastle University in the UK. While at Newcastle University he was project manager for ‘Culture Lab’, a £4 million centre for digital media and creative practice that opened in 2006.

His publications include National Deconstruction: Violence, Identity and Justice in Bosnia (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998); Writing Security: United States Foreign Policy and the Politics of Identity, revised edition (Manchester/Minneapolis: Manchester University Press/University of Minnesota Press, 1998), and Moral Spaces: Rethinking Ethics and World Politics, edited with Michael J. Shapiro (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999). National Deconstruction was named International Forum Bosnia’s Book of the Year 1999, and has been translated for publication in Sarajevo in 2003.

In recent years his research has increasingly focused on particular elements of visual culture, particularly photography, focusing on representations of famine, atrocity, and war. He was one of the curators for the Imagining Famine exhibition of photographs which opened at the Guardian Newsroom in London in August 2005. In 2008 completed a project on the visual economy of HIV/AIDS as a security issue.

Full details and publications can be accessed at this personal web site, http://www.david-campbell.org