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Ian Campbell is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Davis. He holds a Ph.D. (2011) and B.A. (2005) in History from the University of Michigan, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. His research focuses on pre-Revolutionary Russia, particularly the dynamics between non-Russian territories and imperial governance. Campbell’s work emphasizes colonialism, military history, and environmental transformations in the Russian Empire.
His first book, Knowledge and the Ends of Empire, explores tsarist policies toward the Kazakh steppe, analyzing bureaucratic knowledge systems and local intermediaries. Current projects include The Bleeding Edges, studying counterinsurgency across Russian borderlands, and Sowing Russianness?, reframing Kazakhstan through settler colonialism frameworks. His research has been supported by prestigious grants such as the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Award and the American Councils Title VIII Fellowship.
Campbell teaches courses on European history, Russian history, and military history at both undergraduate and graduate levels. His publications span journals like The Russian Review and Ab Imperio, with a focus on violence, colonialism, and environmental adaptation in imperial contexts. Awards include the Fondiler Dissertation Prize for outstanding doctoral work (2011).
