Rate My Professor Hugh Campbell

Professor Hugh Campbell is the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Te Kete Aronui - Division of Humanities at the University of Otago and Professor of Sociology, Gender Studies and Criminology in the School of Social Sciences. He has held a Chair in Sociology since 2011 and previously served as Director of the Centre for Sustainability from 2000 to 2010, Head of the Department of Sociology, Gender and Social Work from 2010 to 2018, and Associate Dean Research for the Division. Campbell first arrived at Otago in 1982 for undergraduate studies in theatre and social anthropology, earning an MA in Social Anthropology from Otago in 1988 and a PhD in Rural Sociology from Charles Sturt University. After working as a research assistant at Lincoln University, he returned to Otago as a lecturer in 1994, developing courses on rural society in New Zealand and the global politics of food.

Campbell's research specializations include the sociology of agriculture and food, environmental dynamics in food and agriculture, social dimensions of sustainability, and food and agricultural governance and neoliberalisation. He has led or co-led major projects such as Greening Food (1995–2002), the 12-year ARGOS project on sustainability dynamics across over 100 New Zealand farms and orchards, New Rural Economies with international collaborators, Biological Economies re-theorising rural economies, and the Food Waste Innovation research theme. His work has garnered over 7,600 citations with an h-index of 39. Key publications include *Farming Inside Invisible Worlds: Modernist Agriculture and its Consequences* (2020, Bloomsbury Academic); *Biological Economies: Experimentation and the Politics of Agri-Food Frontiers* (edited, 2016, Routledge); 'Measurability, austerity and edibility: Introducing waste into food regime theory' (*Journal of Rural Studies*, 2017); 'After the "Organic Industrial Complex"' (*Journal of Rural Studies*, 2011); and 'Breaking new ground in food regime theory' (*Agriculture & Human Values*, 2009). He teaches SOCI 202 Big Ideas in Sociology, SOCI 319 The Global Politics of Food, and other courses, and supervises postgraduate theses on food systems, sustainability, and agriculture.