My name is Isaac Campos. I created this website to feature some of my research, especially the projects that might be of interest to the general public.

Professional:
Professor, Department of History
University of Cincinnati

Education:
AB: University of Michigan
PhD: Harvard University

Contact:
isaac.campos@uc.edu

Publications

BOOK:  Home Grown: Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico’s War on Drugs (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012).

 ARTICLES (Refereed):

“‘Pressure-Response’ and the Origins of Mexican Drug Policy, 1912-1920: A Reassessment,” in Histories of Drug Trafficking in Twentieth Century Mexico, eds. Wil Pansters and Benjamin Smith (University of New Mexico Press, 2022).

“Reefer Madness Past and Present: Dr. Leopoldo Salazar Viniegra, Mexico, and the United States, c. 1938-Present,” in Cannabis: Global Histories, eds. James Mills and Lucas Richert (MIT Press, 2021).

“Mexicans and the Origins of Marijuana Prohibition in the United States: A Reassessment,” The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs 32 (2018): 6-37.

“A Diplomatic Failure: The Mexican Role in the Demise of the 1940 Reglamento Federal de Toxicomanías,” Third World Quarterly, 39, no. 2 (2018): 232-247.

“Toward a New Drug History of Latin America: A Research Frontier at the Center of Debates,” (with Paul Gootenberg), Hispanic American Historical Review, 95, no. 1 (Feb. 2015): 1-35.

“Degeneration and the Origins of the War on Drugs,” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 26, no. 2 (2010): 379-408.

EDITED COLLECTIONS:

“Mexican Drug History: An Introduction,” ed. Isaac Campos, The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs, 34, no. 1 (Spring 2020).

“The New Drug History of the Americas,” eds. Isaac Campos and Paul Gootenberg, Hispanic American Historical Review 95, no. 1 (Feb. 2015).

JOURNALISM/COMMENTARY/OTHER:

“The Making of Pariah Drugs and Drug Prohibitions in Mexico and Latin America, 1850-1945,” in The Oxford Handbook of Global Drug History, ed. Paul Gootenberg (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022).

Brian D. Earp, Jonathan Lewis, and Carl L. Hart with Bioethicists and Allied Professionals for Drug Policy Reform, “Racial Justice Requires Ending the War on Drugs,” The American Journal of Bioethics 21, no. 4 (2021): 4-19.

“Mexico, Shanghai, and Drug History’s Global Turn,” The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs 34, no. 1 (2020): 3-14.