Fonds MS-2-770 - Sue Campbell fonds

Susan Leslie Campbell was a philosopher and teacher at Dalhousie University from 1992 until her death in 2011. She was born in Edmonton and completed her undergraduate and graduate studies in Alberta before receiving a PhD from the University of Toronto. Her work in philosophy of memory and psychology is internationally recognized and wide-ranging in its scope, encompassing disciplines including women's and gender studies, public policy, psychology, cultural studies and law.

“Being Dismissed: The Politics of Emotional Expression,” published in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 9.3 (1994), was chosen in 2010 as one of the 16 most influential and significant articles to be published in the journal's history. Campbell’s first book, Interpreting the Personal: Expression and the Formation of Feelings (1997), was shortlisted for the Canadian Philosophical Association Book Prize. Relational Remembering: Rethinking the Memory Wars (2003) was awarded the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Prize and was named a Choice Notable Academic Title. She also co-edited two collections of original essays: Racism and Philosophy (1999) and Embodiment and Agency (2009).

Campbell was commissioned to prepare two discussion papers for the Indian Residential Schools Resolution Canada Truth and Reconciliation Commission: “Challenges to Memory in Political Contexts: Recognizing Disrespectful Challenge” and “Remembering for the Future: Memory as a Lens on the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission," both of which were republished posthumously in Our Faithfulness to the Past: The Ethics and Politics of Memory (2014).