Professor Colin Campbell
Visiting Professor & Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia
Colin Campbell's degrees include: A.B. (Hons.), Gonzaga University (1965), M.A., the University of Alberta (1966) and Ph.D., Duke University (1973)-all in political science. He also obtained a M.Div. (1975) from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley.
In July 2002, Campbell became the Canada Research Chair in U.S. Government and Politics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He chairs UBC's U.S. Studies Program. He also is professor of political science. From 1975 to 1983, Campbell taught at York University in Toronto where he became professor of political science and founding coordinator of the Public Policy and Administration Program. From 1983 to 2002, he was university professor at Georgetown University-becoming university professor of public policy in 1993. Between 1990 and 1998, Campbell established and directed the Georgetown Public Policy Institute that is now ranked 17th among 253 public affairs programs in the U.S. After a sabbatical, he coordinated the development of the GPPI Executive Master's in Policy Management. Campbell has served as a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. three times (1979, 1982-83 and 1998-99). During 1979-81, he was president of the Canadian Study of Parliament Group. From 1984 to 1989, he co-founded and co-chaired the International Political Science Association Research Committee on the Structure and Organization of Government. He co-founded in 1988 Governance: An International Journal of Policy and Administration that ranked as the top journal in public administration in the 2002 and 2004 ISI Citation reports. He served two separate terms as the journal's co-editor (1987-1992; 1996-1997). He has had fellowships at York University, University of Manchester and the Australian National University. He has been visiting professor at Meiji University in Tokyo, the University of Melbourne, the University of Sydney, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Paris), and Universidad Nacional de San Martin in Buenos Aires. In 1993, he gave the Martin D'Arcy Lectures at Oxford University. He has consulted for OECD, the World Bank, the United States Air Force and the Canada School of Public Service. In 1999, Campbell was elected a fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA). During 2004, he served on a NAPA panel reviewing the technology transfer function of NASA.
Along with co-editing eight collections-including a four-volume series of mid-term assessments of U.S. presidents (the most recent being The George W. Bush Presidency: Appraisals and Prospects)-and publishing numerous articles and chapters in scholarly journals and books, Campbell has authored or co-authored nine books: Preparing for the Future: Strategic Planning in the U.S. Air Force (2003)-recipient of the National Academy of Public Administration Brownlow Award; The US Presidency in Crisis: A Comparative Perspective (1998)-recipient of the Governance and International Political Science Association Levine Prize; The End of Whitehall: Death of a Paradigm? (1995); Political Leadership in an Age of Constraint: The Australian Experience (1992); Politics and Government in Europe Today (1990, 1995); Managing the Presidency: Carter, Reagan and the Search for Executive Harmony (1986)-recipient of the American Political Science Association Neustadt Prize and the Alpha Sigma Nu Prize; Governments Under Stress: Political Executives and Key Bureaucrats in Washington, London and Ottawa (1983)-selected by Choice as "outstanding"; The Superbureaucrats: Structure and Behavior in Central Agencies (1979); and, The Canadian Senate: A Lobby From Within (1978).
