Bradley Campbell

Bradley Campbell was born in Columbia, South Carolina, and grew up in nearby Aiken. After graduating from Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee, he attended graduate school at Clemson University and then the University of Virginia, where in 2008 he received a Ph.D. in sociology. He is currently a Professor of Sociology at California State University, Los Angeles.

Professor Campbell is broadly interested in moral conflict — clashes of right and wrong and how they are handled. Most of his work examines violence, and he is the author of the book THE GEOMETRY OF GENOCIDE: A STUDY IN PURE SOCIOLOGY. Recently he has also begun to examine confllicts on modern college campuses. Along with Jason Manning, he is the author of THE RISE OF VICTIMHOOD CULTURE: MICROAGGRESSIONS, SAFE SPACES, AND THE NEW CULTURE WARS, which looks at microaggression complaints, calls for trigger warnings and safe spaces, and the ongoing debate about these phenomena, which can be seen as manifestations of ongoing moral change and the clash of different moral ideals.

For more information, see http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/bradley-campbell