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Emily B. Campbell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Rhode Island College, with prior teaching appointments at College of the Holy Cross, Lehman College (CUNY), and public bilingual education in Spain. Her office is located in Gaige Hall, and she can be contacted at ecampbell1@ric.edu.
Education:
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, SNF Agora Institute
- Ph.D., City University of New York Graduate Center
- M.A., M.Phil, City University of New York Graduate Center
- B.A., Indiana University, Bloomington (Departmental Honors)
Professor Campbell's research program centers on two interconnected strands: (1) the sociopolitical role of grief in the drug overdose crisis through multi-year New England ethnography, and (2) democratic revitalization in plural societies via comparative case studies. Her international research experience includes fellowships at Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany) and Mexico City. She examines how communities navigate crises through cultural frameworks, religious practices, and collective action, with particular focus on grief as a political catalyst and democracy as a lived practice.
Her scholarly output reveals consistent engagement with contemporary sociopolitical tensions, spanning drug policy critique, religious dimensions of social movements, and educational equity. Publications in Contexts, Open Theology, and Critical Research on Religion demonstrate methodological diversity across ethnographic, historical, and comparative approaches, with recurring themes of community resilience and institutional trust erosion.
In pedagogy, Professor Campbell cultivates intellectual risk-taking through research projects, oral presentations, debates, and artistic expression. Her courses—including Introduction to Sociology, Social Research Methods, and specialized Justice Studies topics—emphasize active citizenship and critical engagement with social structures, preparing students as lifelong learners equipped to navigate complex societal challenges.
