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Background
Dr Peter Campbell is a Lecturer in Cultural Heritage Under Threat at the Cranfield Forensic Institute. Peter's research broadly examines the looting, trafficking, and destruction of cultural heritage with a special emphasis on collaborative counter-trafficking workshops with transnational organisations, customs, border security, and police.
Peter completed his PhD in Archaeology at the University of Southampton. He was previously based at the British School at Rome for three years, two years as the Assistant Director for Archaeology and Archaeological Science.
Research opportunities
Peter is a co-investigator on a £2 million AHRC grant, Imagining Future through [Un]Archived Pasts. The project 'activates' archives, museums, and archaeological sites for local communities by empowering them to create their own narratives, as well as seeking to embed culture as a human right in international policy. The project engages with complex issues, such as dissensus (as opposed to consensus), repatriation, and how to best protect local cultural memory in the midst of colonialism and globalisation. The project focuses initially on Tanzania, Ghana, Lebanon, and Syria before broadening to other countries in the Middle East and Africa.
Current activities
Peter is continuing collaborative workshops and training with the OSCE and partner institutions, specifically for training front-line customs and border security agents.
His archaeological fieldwork projects include the Fournoi Underwater Survey in Greece and the Tiber River Survey in Italy.
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Paxton AB, McGonigle C, Damour M, Holly G, Caporaso A, .... (2024). Shipwreck ecology: Understanding the function and processes from microbes to megafauna. BioScience, 74(1)
- Briggs L & Campbell PB. (2023). 6 Shipwreck archaeology in the past 10 years. Archaeological Reports, 69
- Campbell PB & Tibbs A. (2023). Preface. Rivers and Waterways in the Roman World: Empire of Water
- Campbell PB. (2021). The Anthropocene, hyperobjects and the archaeology of the future past. Antiquity, 95(383)
- Campbell P, Kay S, Keay S & Pomar E. (2020). FIELDWORK AT PORTUS (COMUNE DI FIUMICINO, PROVINCIA DI ROMA, REGIONE LAZIO). Papers of the British School at Rome, 88
- Campbell PB. (2020). The Sea as a Hyperobject: Moving beyond Maritime Cultural Landscapes. Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies, 8(3-4)
- Richards NT, Campbell PB, Mires C & Hoyt JC. (2019). The Meyer's Boatyard Vessel, Bermuda: the investigation of an M-class gunboat built 1876. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 48(1)
- Campbell PB. (2013). The Illicit Antiquities Trade as a Transnational Criminal Network: Characterizing and Anticipating Trafficking of Cultural Heritage. International Journal of Cultural Property, 20(2)
- Campbell PB. (2012). A Roman Type IVB Wooden Anchor Found in the Corfu Channel, Albania. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 41(2)
Books
- Briscoe J, Dickmann M, Hall DT, Mayrhofer W & Parry E. Briscoe J, Dickmann M, Hall D, Mayrhofer W & Parry E (eds). (2023). Understanding Careers Around the Globe
- Campbell PB. (2023). Conclusion: If on a winter’s night a ship wrecks In Rich SA & Campbell PB (eds), Contemporary philosophy for maritime archaeology: flat ontologies, oceanic thought, and the Anthropocene. Sidestone Press Academics.
- Campbell PB. (2023). Chapter 10: Octopodology and Dark Amphorae: alien archaeologies, reflexivity, and the non-human afterlives of objects in the sea In Rich SA & Campbell PB (eds), Contemporary philosophy for maritime archaeology: flat ontologies, oceanic thought, and the Anthropocene. Sidestone Press Academics.
- Campbell PB. (2023). Prelude: A History of maritime archaeological thought In Rich SA & Campbell PB (eds), Contemporary philosophy for maritime archaeology: flat ontologies, oceanic thought, and the Anthropocene. Sidestone Press Academics.
- Rich SA & Campbell PB. (2023). Chapter 1: Collapse, cataclysm, and eruption: Alien archaeologies for the Anthropocene In Rich SA & Campbell PB (eds), Contemporary philosophy for maritime archaeology: flat ontologies, oceanic thought, and the Anthropocene. Sidestone Press Academics.
- Pomar E, Kay S, Campbell P & Vuković K. (2023). Non-Intrusive Methodologies for Large Area Urban Research In Ian H, Thea R, Stephen K, Salvatore P & Paolo L (eds), Non-Intrusive Methodologies for Large Area Urban Research. Archaeopress Archaeology.
- Tibbs A & Campbell P. (2023). Rivers and Waterways in the Roman World
- Campbell PB. (2023). The Archaeology of Rivers In Rivers and Waterways in the Roman World. Routledge.
- Campbell P & Vuković K. (2022). Routes In Burns J & Duncan D (eds), Transnational modern languages: A handbook. Liverpool University Press.
- Campbell P. (2022). Chapter 3: contingent seas: seafaring, contracts, and law In Candy P & Mataix Ferrándiz E (eds), Roman law and maritime commerce. Edinburgh University Press.
- Tusa S, Campbell P, Polakowski M, Murray W, Oliveri F, .... (2021). Chapter 16: The battle of the Aegates Islands, 241 BC: mapping a naval encounter, 2005-2019 In Prescott C, Karivieri A, Campbell P, Göransson K & Tusa S (eds), Trinacria, 'an island outside time': International archaeology in Sicily. OXBOW books.
- Campbell PB & Koutsouflakis G. (2021). Aegean navigation and the shipwrecks of Fournoi: The archipelago in context In Demesticha S, Blue L, Baika K, Beltrame C, Blackman D, ... (eds), Under the Mediterranean I: Studies in maritime archaeology. Sidestone Press Academics.
- Campbell PB, Smith DM, Royal JG, Begley CT, Zdravković P, .... (2019). Developing maritime archaeology education and outreach in the Balkans: the Illyrian coastal exploration program’s field schools in Albania, Croatia, and Montenegro In Bell Katy (ed.), Bridging the Gap in Maritime Archaeology: Working with Professional and Public Communities. Archaeopress Access Archaeology.
- Campbell PB & Paul KA. (2019). Funding conflict through cultural property: the destruction and trafficking of cultural heritage by Islamic State In Engelhart M & Vidlicka SR (eds), Dealing with Terrorism: Empirical and Normative Challenges of Fighting the Islamic State (165). Duncker & Humblot.