Contributions To Scholarship
Presently, within Syracuse University, he serves as a mentor for younger scholars and teaches courses on African Politics, African International Relations, Militarism and Transformation in Southern Africa, Introduction to Pan Africanism and The Caribbean Society since Independence, Caribbean Intellectual Thought and Introduction to African American Studies. At Syracuse University, Campbell is a member of the International Relations Faculty in the Maxwell School. He is also one of the principal conveners for the Graduate Seminar on Pan Africanism: Research and Readings. In this course he conducts a major seminar on the issues of peace and reconstruction and the meanings of Pan Africanism today.
He is the Director of the Africa Initiative in the University. The purpose of the initiative is to focus on Africa as an important source of knowledge, highlighting work on the continent by Syracuse University scholars. The scholars represent a variety of disciplines including the arts, humanities, social sciences, sciences, mathematics, engineering and others. The Africa Initiative has the following areas of research and advocacy: peace and reconstruction, Africa and the information revolution, gender and the environment in the Pan African world, African Orature, African Languages and literatures and Reparations in the Twenty First Century.
Dr. Campbell has published widely. His most important book Rasta and Resistance From Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney is going through its sixth edition. His Reclaiming Zimbabwe: The Exhaustion of the Patriarchal Model of Liberation (David Phillip, South Africa and Africa World Press, New Jersey, 2003) lays out a new critique of liberation movements that go sour and fail to transform themselves and their societies. His most recent book is Pan Africanism, Pan Africanists and African Liberation in the 21st century(New Academia Publishers 2006).
Dr. Campbell has contributed over thirty chapters to other edited books and has published numerous articles and reviews in scholarly journals, and is currently writing a book titled Angola: The Struggle for Reconstruction.
Dr. Campbell writes regularly for the major newspapers in the USA, Southern Africa, the Caribbean, and the United Kingdom. He has been a commentator on international politics on Pacifica Radio. His commentaries on international issues are widely circulated and his interview for the Blackelectorate.com, on the implications of September 11/2001 for humanity was widely reproduced on web sites in Africa, Europe, Latin America and North America. As a commentator on peace and transformation, he is actively involved in the opposition to the establishment of the US Africa Command.
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