Greg Campbell

PhD Student, Recreation and Leisure Studies

Biography

Greg Campbell
Greg Karim Campbell is a PhD student in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies at the University of Waterloo. With a background in Rhetoric and Communication Design from the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo, Greg brings a praxis that synthesizes academic and artistic investigations that informs knowledge translation discourses. To fulfill his Master of Arts degree from the English and Language Department, Greg redesigned an African American travel guide from the Jim Crow era in the form of a software application for contemporary audiences. This approach informed the conceptualization of African American leisure experiences and the ways that African American cultural products signify its environment, black experiences, and African American ways of knowing.  

Research interests

Human-nature relationships, experiential learning, research creation, onto-epistemology

Greg’s area of interest as a doctoral student is at the intersection of experiential learning, human-nature relationships, onto-epistemologies, learning science, rhetorical theory, leisure productions, and research-creation methodologies. His PhD work focusses on exploring leisure as a space for learning how to challenge individual and societal experiences of exclusion through human-nature frameworks.