Tylar Campbell is an Anthropologist, Data Journalist, and Multimodal-Artist. He is a Ph.D. candidate at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts & Technology (SIAT) and 2022 recipient of the Vanier Graduate Scholar Award. His research looks at the role of digital humanities, new media, and emerging technology in the creation of new realities that re-frame the past, present, and future. His research builds on his MA thesis, which examines historical trauma and memory of racial violence in the American Deep South, connecting personal family history to broader historical narratives. This led to a multi-modal production of storytelling with data-visualization, written narrative, and podcast. His work investigates methods to discuss fugitive histories and how these spaces are being reclaimed and preserved. His most recent work is titled, Deep Roots, Bama Soil: Narrative multimodal anthropology and fugitive histories (Campbell, 2024), published by the American Anthropological Association’s journal Museum Anthropology, special issue on Black Museum Anthropology, August 2024. 

Dissertation Project Title: Traversing Spaces: An Interactive Website Geolocating Fugitive Narratives and Black Historical Settlements in North America.