Elena I. Campbell

Elena I. Campbell is an Associate Professor and the Walker Family Endowed Professor in History at the University of Washington's Department of History, housed within the College of Arts & Sciences. She specializes in the history of empire, nationalism, and religion in late tsarist Russia. Her research examines imperial governance, particularly focusing on Russia's Muslim populations and the socio-political dynamics of the Circumpolar North.

Education: PhD (equivalent) from the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Russian History in St. Petersburg (1999). Prior to UW, she taught at the European University at St. Petersburg, University of Michigan, and Harvard University.

Her research explores themes such as empire and nationalism, with a forthcoming project analyzing the modernization of the Russian North through political, environmental, and cultural lenses. Teaching includes courses on Imperial Russia, Arctic Histories, and the history of St. Petersburg/Leningrad.

Publications include *The Muslim Question and Russian Imperial Governance* (2015), which investigates late imperial Russia's management of ethnic and religious diversity. Current research emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the North's socio-environmental transformation.