Elena I. Campbell is an Associate Professor and Walker Family Endowed Professor in History. She also serves as a UW co-representative, with Jason Young, at the UArctic (international network of universities and other institutions concerned with education and research in and about the Circumpolar North). 

Her research and teaching interests focus on empire, nationalism, social memory, environment, Russia and the Circumpolar North. Her first book, The Muslim Question and Russian Imperial Governance (Indiana University Press, 2015), examines how imperial Russia dealt with its Muslim subjects in the late 19th and early 20th century as growing nationalism was transforming the empire's relationship with its many different ethnic and religious communities.  Her new book project takes the study of the Russian imperial experience into a new direction. By linking histories of politics, economics, environment, science, and culture, this project seeks to explore the creation of the modern Russian North during the late imperial period.