Howard Campbell

Howard Campbell is a professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). He is the author or editor of seven academic volumes including Drug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juárez and a 2021 book from University of Texas Press called Downtown Juárez: Underworlds of Violence and Abuse. Dr. Campbell received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1990. He has been a professor at UTEP since 1991, and chairman of the Department of Sociology &Anthropology at UTEP from 2014 to 2023. He is a specialist in Latin American Studies with a primary focus on Mexico.