Heather Campbell

Heather E. Campbell, PhD, Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy, is Director of the Division of Politics and Economics in the School of Social Science, Policy and Evaluation at the Claremont Graduate University, part of the Claremont Consortium in the city of Claremont, California, USA. Her master’s and doctoral degrees are in Public Policy Analysis from Carnegie Mellon University. She has served as President and Boardmember of AZENet, the Arizona Evaluation Network; Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Public Affairs Education (JPAE); and is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 

Heather's interests are in policy analysis broadly, with a primary focus on urban environmental policy and particularly research in minority-based environmental injustice. Her coauthored book Urban Environmental Policy Analysis (Campbell & Corley, 2012), was called a “Rosetta stone” for its ability to communicate across urban disciplines. Her coauthored research in Rethinking Environmental Justice in Sustainable Cities: Insights from Agent-Based Modeling (Campbell, Kim, & Eckerd, 2015) goes beyond documenting environmental injustice to understanding the urban conditions under which it emerges and how it might be reduced. Their forthcoming book, Green Gentrification and Environmental Injustice: A Complexity Approach to Policy (Campbell, Eckerd, & Kim, October 2024) examines concerns with whether greening under-resourced communities may drive out the intended recipients, and policy approaches to reduce the likelihood of such outcomes. 

Heather is very much looking forward to collaborating across disciplinary boundaries with faculty and students in the Arts on issues of urban sustainability.