David E. Campbell

David Edward Campbell (born November 29, 1971) is a Canadian political scientist and is the Packey J. Dee Professor of American Democracy at the University of Notre Dame and the founding director of the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy. He is currently the Director of the Notre Dame Democracy Initiative.

Early life and education Campbell was born on November 29, 1971, in Medicine Hat, Alberta. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Brigham Young University and Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in political science from Harvard University. His doctoral advisors were Robert D. Putnam and Paul E. Peterson. As he summarized his research in an interview, "I would say to churches, on both the left and the right, that if you want to bring people back to the pews, you want to stay out of politics."

Books See Jane Run: How Women Politicians Matter for Young People (with Christina Wolbrecht) University of Chicago Press, 2025. Secular Surge: A New Fault Line in American Politics (with John C. Green and Geoffrey C. Layman) Cambridge University Press, December 2020. 2022 Distinguished Book Award, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion 2022 Honorable Mention, Hubert Morken Award for Best Book in Religion and Politics, Religion and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association Seeking the Promised Land: Mormons and American Politics (with John C. Green and J. Quin Monson) Cambridge University Press, 2014. American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us (with Robert D. Putnam) Simon & Schuster, 2010. 2011 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Book Award 2011 Wilbur Award, Religion Communicators Council Why We Vote: How Schools and Communities Shape Our Civic Life Princeton University Press, 2008.

Edited volumes: Making Civics Count: Citizenship Education for a New Generation (with Meira Levinson, and Frederick M. Hess) Harvard Education Press, 2012. A Matter of Faith: Religion in the 2004 Presidential Election Brookings Institution Press, 2007. Charters, Vouchers, and Public Education (with Paul E. Peterson) Brookings Institution Press, 2001.