Jeremy Campbell

Director, Andes Amazon Program

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    Dr. Jeremy M. Campbell is a sociocultural anthropologist and Director of the Andes-Amazon Program at the Field Museum. Campebell is a global expert on property rights and Indigenous relationships to the environment as expressed in traditional knowledge, customary access and use regimes, and Indigenous-led conservation. He’s completed over two decades of research in the Brazilian Amazon, consults with North American Indigenous nations on socio-environmental issues, and has led international efforts to expand the impact of collaborative and applied research. At the Field Museum, he coordinates the Rapid Social and Biological Inventory Program as well as the Museum’s initiatives to support Indigenous-led conservations in Amazonia.

    Publications

    • Conjuring Property: Speculation and Environmental Futures in the Brazilian Amazon (2015). Seattle: University of Washington Press. Winner of the James M. Blaut Book Award for the outstanding book in Cultural and Political Ecology, from the Association of American Geographers (2017) and the Association for Political & Legal Anthropology Book Award (2017).
    • Routledge Handbook of Amazonia (under contract). Co-editor with Carlos Peres and Torbjørn Haugaasen. Forty-five solicited chapters from leading scholars in the natural and human sciences, to be published in Fall 2026. London: Routledge.
    • “Territorial Rights in Brazil: Chronic Difficulties and New Approaches to Sustaining Traditional Landscapes” (2022), in Tipití: The Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America 18(1).
    • “Indigenous Responses to Encircling Threats in Amazonia” (2017), in Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7(2): 411.

    Education and Work

    • PhD in Anthropology, University of California at Santa Cruz, 2009.
    • MA in Anthropology, University of California at Santa Cruz, 2004.
    • B.A. in Anthropology and Environmental Studies, Davidson College, 2002.
    • Associate Director, Institute for a Sustainable Earth and Faculty in Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, 2001-24.
    • Faculty, Anthropology and Sustainability Studies, Roger Williams University, 2009-21.