Roderick Campbell Promoted To Full Professor

We are delighted to share Roderick Campbell's promotion from Associate Professor to Full Professor of East Asian Archaeology and History.

Together with the ISAW community I am delighted by Rod Campbell's promotion, which reflects not only his international standing as a researcher but also the breadth and creativity he brings to ISAW's doctoral program and his dedication to service both within ISAW and in building ISAW's relations with other departments and units inside and outside NYU.

- Alexander Jones, Director of ISAW

Professor Campbell received his PhD from Harvard University’s Anthropology and East Asian Language and Civilizations departments in 2007. He came to ISAW in 2011 after a series of post-docs at Brown University, Oxford, the Anyang workstation of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Archaeology and ISAW itself. He has published on topics ranging from violence, socio-political complexity, historiography, the Chinese Bronze Age, ancient political economies, Early Chinese visual culture and the Shang economy.  

Professor Campbell’s current research is largely divided between three major foci – Early Chinese visual culture and ontology, Early Chinese economy and Narrative and historiography. The first of these topics has resulted in a book, Shang Visual Culture: Form, Image, Materiality and Pattern in final stages of preparation for Cambridge University Press. Research on the Early Chinese economy has occupied the focus of Campbell’s fieldwork in China since 2009 and has resulted in numerous journal articles and chapters as well as a Cambridge Element, The Shang Economy (Ancient and Premodern Economies series). This work has been the fruit of collaborations with multiple Chinese institutes and scholars and currently focuses on the Erligang period (ca. 1600-1400 BCE) urban center of Zhengzhou Shangcheng in collaboration with the Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Heritage and Archaeology (https://wp.nyu.edu/archaeohub/projects/fieldwork/the-chinese-bronze-age-economics-project/).

Professor Campbell is currently seeking to expand this research into a large-scale international collaboration investigating the Early Chinese economic developments from the late Neolithic to the first empires (ca. 3000 BCE to 220 AD).