Biography
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.
