Rev Dr Garfield Campbell
Research Associate: Teaching the Legacies of Slavery in TEI’s
The Rev Dr Garfield Campbell holds a PhD from the University of Leeds, United Kingdom, where his interdisciplinary doctoral research explored “Conversion, Power and Agency: Anglican Missiology in Jamaica, 1825–1860.” His work examines the complex interplay of conversion, power, and agency within the missionary enterprise of the Church of England in nineteenth-century Jamaica, illuminating how these dynamics operated within the wider contexts of empire, colonialism, and slavery. Drawing on archival research and interdisciplinary methodologies, his scholarship engages the histories of transatlantic chattel slavery, colonialism, Anglican missiology, ecclesiology, and institutional religious practice.
Before undertaking doctoral studies, he earned a Diploma in Ministerial Studies from the United Theological College of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica. He subsequently completed a Bachelor of Arts in Theology and a Master of Science in Human Resource Development at the University of the West Indies, Mona.
He is an ordained priest in the Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. He was ordained deacon in 2008 and priest in 2009. He has served in both rural and urban parishes, engaging with people from diverse socio-economic backgrounds.
His current research interests include Anglicanism in the Caribbean, the intersections of Christianity and colonialism, church heritage and memory, the legacies of slavery and empire, and the role of churches as sites of historical learning, commemoration, and reconciliation.
