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Dr. Beth Campbell

Professor, Middle Grades Education
Email
campbellea@appstate.edu
Phone
828-262-6073

Office address
412 I
College of Education Building

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.

She was an Education Policy Fellow during the academic year 2019-2020.  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.  In 2023, she was appointed an Honorary Doctor by Malmö University's Faculty of Education and Society, in Malmö, Sweden. 

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.