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David Campbell graduated with a PhD from the Australian National University in 1990, and has worked in the Australian Senate, as well as holding academic posts at the Johns Hopkins University in the US and Keele University in the UK.

Campbell is currently Professor of International Politics, and Director of the Newcastle Institute for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK. He is project manager for ‘Culture Lab’, a £4 million centre for digital media and creative practice due to open in Newcastle in 2006.

His most recent 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.

Campbell is currently working on a project entitled Humanitarian Visions, which explores the place of visual culture in international politics, especially the pictorial representation of war, famine and atrocity.

For more background see www.ncl.ac.uk/geps/staff/profile/david.campbell