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Mark V. Campbell is a DJ, scholar, and curator whose research explores relationships between Afrofuturistic innovations and notions of the human. He was a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Regina and is currently the Principal Investigator in a SSHRC-funded research project on Hip Hop Archives. Campbell co-founded the radio show 'Bigger than Hip Hop' in 1997 and established the Northside Hip Hop Archive in 2010. He has spent decades embedded in the Toronto hip hop scene, employing community-engaged praxis as a DJ and curator. His forthcoming books include 'B-sides: ‘Othered’ Kinds of Humans,' a co-edited collection of essays, and 'Hip Hop Archives: Politics, Poetics, and Knowledge Production' with Murray Forman. Additionally, he is a contributor to the book 'Hip Hop Canada: Diasporic Indigenous Reverberations' alongside Charity Marsh. Campbell has published widely in academic journals such as the Southern Journal of Canadian Studies, Critical Studies in Improvisation, and Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society. His popular writings have appeared in public sources like the Globe & Mail and Toronto Star, as well as hip hop magazines like Urbanology.
Department of Sociology