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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
- Campbell P (2021) The Anthropocene, hyperobjects and the archaeology of the future past, Antiquity, 95 (383) 1315-1330.
- Campbell P (2020) The sea as a hyperobject: Moving beyond maritime cultural landscapes, Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology & Heritage Studies, 8 (3-4) 207-225.
- 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) 208-230.
Books
- Campbell PB (2023) Prelude: A History of maritime archaeological thought. In: 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: 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: Contemporary philosophy for maritime archaeology: flat ontologies, oceanic thought, and the Anthropocene, Sidestone Press Academics.
- Campbell PB (2023) Conclusion: If on a winter’s night a ship wrecks. In: Contemporary philosophy for maritime archaeology: flat ontologies, oceanic thought, and the Anthropocene, Sidestone Press Academics.
- Rich SA, Campbell PB (eds), (2023) Contemporary philosophy for maritime archaeology: flat ontologies, oceanic thought, and the Anthropocene, Sidestone Press Academics.
- Campbell P & Vuković K (2022) Routes. In: Transnational modern languages: A handbook, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, p. 251-260.
- Campbell P (2022) Chapter 3: contingent seas: seafaring, contracts, and law. In: Roman law and maritime commerce, Edinburgh University Press.
- Tusa S, Campbell P, Polakowski M, Murray W, Oliveri F, Buccellato C, Fresina A & Li Vigni V (2021) Chapter 16: The battle of the Aegates Islands, 241 BC: mapping a naval encounter, 2005-2019. In: Trinacria, 'an island outside time': International archaeology in Sicily, Oxford: OXBOW books, p. 167-180.
- Campbell PB & Koutsouflakis G (2021) Aegean navigation and the shipwrecks of Fournoi: The archipelago in context. In: Under the Mediterranean I: Studies in maritime archaeology, Sidestone Press Academics, p. 279-298.
- Campbell PB and Paul KA (2019) Funding conflict through cultural property: the destruction and trafficking of cultural heritage by Islamic State. In: Dealing with Terrorism: Empirical and Normative Challenges of Fighting the Islamic State, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, p. 117-141.
- Campbell PB, Smith DM, Royal JG, Begley CT, Zdravković P & Irwin D (2019) Developing maritime archaeology education and outreach in the Balkans: the Illyrian coastal exploration program’s field schools in Albania, Croatia, and Montenegro. In: Bridging the Gap in Maritime Archaeology: Working with Professional and Public Communities, Havertown, PA: Archaeopress Access Archaeology, p. 121-146.
