David Campbell (Australian political scientist)


David Campbell, is an Australian political scientist. He is known for his writing on photography and post-realism.

Career

David Campbell graduated with a PhD from the Australian National University in 1990.
From 1997-2004 he was Professor of International Politics at Newcastle University in England. 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.
Between 2004-10 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 London, in August 2005.
In 2008 completed a project on the visual economy of HIV/AIDS as a security issue.
In January 2016, he became 'manager communications and marketing' for World Press Photo in Amsterdam.
He has also worked for the Australian Senate, Johns Hopkins University and Keele University.

Qualifications and membership

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.

Publications

His publications include National Deconstruction: Violence, Identity and Justice in Bosnia in 1998. The International Forum Bosnia named it 'Book of the Year 1999', as the best English-language publication dealing with Bosnia and Herzegovina. The book was translated for publication in Sarajevo in 2003.