Department of Learning, Teaching and Curriculum

Dr. Elizabeth (Beth) Campbell’s interests are in collaborative and community-based research and writing. Her research explores the constitutive nature of collaborative research, especially how it works—through shared agency, commitment, and experience—to form and transform those who engage it.

In 2020, she received the Weatherford Award for nonfiction for the book I’m Afraid of That Water: A Collaborative Ethnography of a West Virginia Water Crisis.

For the 2019-2020 academic year, she completed in the Education Policy Fellowship program.

Dr. Campbell joined the RCOE faculty in 2018 as the chair of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction.

Selected Publications

• Lassiter, L., Hoey, B., & Campbell, E. (2020). I’m afraid of that water: A collaborative ethnography of the West Virginia water crisis. West Virginia University Press, Morgantown, WV. (2020 Weatherford Award)
• Campbell, E., Pahl, K., Rasool, Z., & Pente, E. (Eds.). (2018.) Re-imagining contested communities: Connecting Rotherham through research. Bristol, UK: Policy Press.
• Campbell, E. & Lassiter, L. E. (2015.) Doing ethnography today: Theories, methods, exercises. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Lassiter, L. E., Goodall, H., Campbell, E., & Johnson, M. N. (2004.) The Other Side of Middletown: Exploring Muncie’s African American Community. Lanham, Maryland: AltaMira Press.