Office: 409 Miller Center | MSC 41
Tel: 503.768.7435
Fax: 503.768.7418
Email: campion@lclark.edu
Website: www.lclark.edu/~campion

Education
Ph.D., History, Virginia
M.A., History, Virginia
B.A., History and English, Georgetown

Prof. Campion has been a member of the history department since 2002 and teaches survey courses on British history from the late Middle Ages to the present and South Asian history from antiquity to the present. His upper-level courses focus on the British Empire, Modern Ireland and Britain, and comparative decolonization. Additionally, he teaches a section of the first-year core focusing on the First World War.

Prof. Campion has published articles on policing and civil order in colonial India, railways security in colonial India, parliamentary reform of the London Police, and comparative nationalism in Britain and its empire. His current research interests include the politics of decolonization in Malta and the impact of Irish republicanism on the British Empire.  In 2006 he received the Graves Award for excellence in teaching and scholarship in the humanities and in 2009-10 was a visiting Fulbright lecturer at the Hong Kong Baptist University.

Prof. Campion’s research and teaching have been supported by the William J. Fulbright Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Andrew J. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Institute of Indian Studies, and the Rotary International Foundation.

In addition to teaching Prof. Campion is one of the college’s co-directors of external awards and fellowships and the faculty liaison for the Army ROTC program at the University of Portland.  He also serves on the dissertation year fellowship and Stern grant committee of the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS).

Courses
South Asia Surveys:
HIST 259 India in the Age of Empire
HIST 217 The Emergence of Modern South Asia

British Surveys:
HIST 221 Tudor & Stuart Britain, 1485-1688
HIST 222 Britain in the Age of Revolution, 1688-1815
HIST 224 The Making of Modern Britain, 1815-present

Specialty Courses:
CORE 107 The War to End All Wars
HIST 298 Literature and History of Modern Ireland
HIST 298 Modern East Africa

Upper-Level Courses:
HIST 300 Historical Materials
HIST 328 The British Empire

Reading Colloquia:
HIST 400 Empire and Independence in the Modern World
HIST 400 Politics and Society in Modern Ireland

Research Seminars:
HIST 450 The Victorians
HIST 450 20th-Century Britain and Empire
HIST 450 The British Raj: India 1857-1947