Cameron Campbell

Professor, Sociology

Department: Sociology

Department of Sociology
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1551
camcam@ucla.edu
Personal Website

Keywords: China, Sociology

EDUCATION

B.S. Engineering and Applied Sciences, B.S. History, Cal. Institute of Technology, 1989
M.A. in Demography, University of Pennsylvania, 1991
Ph.D. in Demography and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, 1995
Dissertation title: Chinese mortality transitions: The case of Beijing, 1644-1990.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Sociology and demography of historical and contemprary China
Comparative histroical sociology and demography
Simulation of demographic and social processes
Kin Goup, household and family organization

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Ding Yizhuang, Guo Songyi, James Lee, and Cameron Campbell. 2004. Liaodong yimin de qiren shehui (Banner Society and the Settlement of Eastern Liaodong). Shanghai: Shanghai shehui kexue chubanshe.

Tommy Bengtsson, Cameron Campbell, James Z. Lee et al. 2004. Life Under Pressure: Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900. MIT Press.

Lee, James and Cameron Campbell. 1997. Fate and Fortune in Rural China: Social Organization and Population Behavior in Rural Liaoning, 1774-1873. Cambridge University Press.

Articles

Campbell, Cameron and James Lee.  2009.  “Long-Term Mortality Consequences of Childhood Family Context in Liaoning, China, 1749-1909.”  Social Science & Medicine.  68:1641-1648.

Campbell, Cameron and James Lee.  2008.  “Economic Conditions and Male First Marriage in Northeast China, 1749-1909.”  Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies.  8(1):17-42.

Campbell, Cameron and James Lee.  2008  “Kinship, Employment and Marriage: The Importance of Kin Networks for Young Adult Males in Qing Liaoning.”  Social Science History.  32(2):175-214.

Campbell, Cameron and James Lee.  2008.  “Villages, Descent Groups, Households and Individual Outcomes in Rural Liaoning, 1789-1909.”  In Bengtsson, Tommy and Geri Mineau, eds.  Kinship and Demographic Behavior in the Past.  Springer, 73-104.

Shuang Chen, Cameron Campbell, and James Lee.  2005 (publ. 2006).  “Vulnerability and Resettlement: Mortality Differences in Northeast China by Place of Origin, 1870-1912 - Comparing Urban and Rural Migrants.”  Annales de Démographie Historique.  2005(2): 47-79.

Campbell, Cameron and James Lee. 2002 (publ. 2006). "State views and local views of population: Linking and comparing genealogies and household registers in Liaoning, 1749-1909." History and Computing.14(1+2):9-29.

Lee, James and Cameron Campbell. 2005. “Living standards in Liaoning, 1749-1909: Evidence from demographic outcomes.” In Allen, Robert, Tommy Bengtsson and Martin Dribe eds. Living Standards in the Past. New Perspectives on Well-Being in Europe and Asia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 403-426.

Campbell, Cameron and James Lee. 2003. "Social mobility from a kinship perspective: Rural Liaoning, 1789-1909." International Review of Social History. 47:1-26.

Campbell, Cameron D., Feng WANG, and James Z. Lee. 2002. "Pretransitional fertility in China.?" Population and Development Review. 28(4):735-750.