Cameron Campbell is a professor in the department of sociology at UCLA.

 

His research focuses on the relationships between social organization, family decision-making, and demographic behavior, and he has published extensively on the topics of family and population in eighteenth and nineteenth century northeast China, most notably the book "Fate and Fortune in Rural China" which he wrote 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", 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.

 

He received his BS degree from Caltech and his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. He joined UCLA in 1996 after an NICHD postdoc at the University of Michigan Population Studies Center.