Cameron D. Campbell
PROFESSOR
Ph. D., University of Pennsylvania, 1995
Office: 202 HAINES
Phone: 310-928-1616
Fax:
310-206-9838
Mailing Address:
264 Haines Hall - Box 951551
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1551
Subfield
China, family, social demography
Research Interests
Cameron Campbell is Professor of Sociology. He received his BS from Caltech and his MA and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. He joined UCLA in 1996 after an NICHD postdoc at the University of Michigan Population Studies Center. His research focuses on the relationships between social organization, family decision-making, and demographic behavior. He has published extensively on family and population in eighteenth and nineteenth century northeast China, most notably the book Fate and Fortune in Rural China with James Lee. Recently he has published papers on ethnic identity and social mobility, and presented work on disability. He is also a participant in the Eurasia project, an international collaboration that compares relationships between economic conditions, household organization, and demographic behavior for a variety of historical European and Asian communities. He is co-author of a volume from this effort, Life Under Pressure, published by MIT Press, that examines how household responses to economic stress were reflected in mortality patterns. With James Lee, he is currently working on a study of changes in family and kinship in northeast China from the seventeenth century to the present.
Selected Publications
Books
Ding Yizhuang, Guo Songyi, James Lee, and Cameron Campbell. 2004. Liaodong yimin de qiren shehui (Banner Society and the Settlement of Eastern Liaodong). Shanghai: Shanghai shehui kexue chubanshe.
Tommy Bengtsson, Cameron Campbell, James Z. Lee et al. 2004. Life Under Pressure: Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900. MIT Press.
Lee, James and Cameron Campbell. 1997. Fate and Fortune in Rural China: Social Organization and Population Behavior in Rural Liaoning, 1774-1873. Cambridge University Press.
Articles
Shuang Chen, Cameron Campbell, and James Lee. 2005 (publ. 2006). “Vulnerability and Resettlement: Mortality Differences in Northeast China by Place of Origin 1870-1912 – Comparing Urban and Rural Migrants.” Annales de Démographie Historique. 2005(2): 47-79.
Campbell, Cameron and James Lee. 2002 (publ. 2006). "State views and local views of population: Linking and comparing genealogies and household registers in Liaoning, 1749-1909." History and Computing.14(1+2):9-29.
Lee, James and Cameron Campbell. 2005. “Living standards in Liaoning, 1749-1909: Evidence from demographic outcomes.” In Allen, Robert, Tommy Bengtsson and Martin Dribe eds. Living Standards in the Past. New Perspectives on Well-Being in Europe and Asia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 403-426.
Campbell, Cameron and James Lee. 2003. "Social mobility from a kinship perspective: Rural Liaoning, 1789-1909." International Review of Social History. 47:1-26.
Campbell, Cameron D., Feng WANG, and James Z. Lee. 2002. "Pretransitional fertility in China.?" Population and Development Review. 28(4):735-750.
Campbell, Cameron, James Z. Lee and Mark Elliott. 2002. "Identity construction and reconstruction: Naming and Manchu ethnicity in Northeast China, 1749-1909." Historical Methods. 35(3):101-116.
Lee, James, Cameron Campbell and Wang Feng. 2002. "Positive checks or Chinese Checks?" Journal of Asian Studies. 61(2)591-607.
Campbell, Cameron and James Lee. 2002. "When husbands and parents die: widowhood and orphanhood in late imperial Liaoning, 1789-1909." In Derosas, Renzo, Michel Oris, and Osamu Saito, eds. When Dad Dies. Bern: Peter Lang, 313-334.
Campbell, Cameron and James Lee. 2001. "Free and unfree labor in Qing China: Emigration and escape among the bannermen of northeast China, 1789-1909." The History of the Family: An International Quarterly. 6(4):455-476.
Campbell, Cameron and James Lee. 2000. "Price fluctuations, family structure and mortality in two rural Chinese populations: Household responses to economic stress in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Liaoning." In Bengtsson, Tommy and Osamu Saito, eds. Population and the economy: From hunger to modern economic growth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 371-420.
Working papers
Awards
American Sociological Association Section on Asia and Asian America, Award for Outstanding Book on Asia for Life Under Pressure: Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900, 2005.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, 2004
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