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Dr Rodrigo Campos
Research Associate

Biography

Rodrigo Campos is a politics and IR researcher working at the intersections between religion and security, with a specific focus on the global dimensions of Evangelical activism within police and military institutions and its relationship to democratic governance. He has extensive ethnographic experience in Brazil, Western Sahara and Egypt. His main research interests include far-right politics, Brazilian militarism, religion and security, global Evangelicalism, and political theory. He co-directed the documentaries A Thread of Hope: Independence or War in Western Sahara (2017) and School Without Censorship (2018). He is currently working as a postdoctoral research associate at the department of Politics and International Relations in the project "Volunteers and Vulnerabilities: the Politics of Policing Partnerships", funded by the ESRC Vulnerabilities and Policing Futures Research Centre.
Rodrigo received his PhD in Politics from the University of York in 2024, with a research about the impact of Evangelical base-building with the police forces in Brazil and its relationship to the far-right. Prior to that, he received an MA in International Relations from the San Tiago Dantas Graduate Programme (Sao Paulo State University, Pontificate Catholic University of Sao Paulo and Campinas States University) in 2017, and a BA in International Relations from the Federal University of Pampa in 2014, in Brazil.

Rodrigo Duque Estrada Campos

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Dr Rodrigo Campos
Department of Politics and International Relations
University of York
YORK
YO10 5DD

rodrigo.campos@york.ac.uk