Rate My Professor Courtney Campbell

Courtney S. Campbell serves as the Hundere Professor in Religion and Culture and Director of the Program in Medical Humanities in the School of History, Philosophy, and Religion at Oregon State University, where he has been on the faculty since 1990. Initially appointed as Assistant Professor, he advanced to Associate Professor in 1994 and full Professor in 2001. He held the position of Chair of the Philosophy Department from 2002 to 2007, assumed the Hundere Chair in 2008, and has been a University Honors College faculty member since 2000. Prior to joining OSU, Campbell served as Associate for Religious Studies and Editor of the Hastings Center Report at The Hastings Center from 1988 to 1990. His academic background includes a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia in 1988, an M.A. in Religious Studies from the same institution in 1984, and a B.A. in Religious Studies from Yale University in 1981, earned magna cum laude with distinction.

Campbell's research and teaching focus on biomedical ethics, with particular emphasis on religious meanings in bioethics, end-of-life care, physician-assisted dying, and Mormonism's intersections with medicine and ethics. He has mentored 48 honors thesis projects, the most among OSU faculty, and teaches Honors College courses on biomedical ethics, death and dying, religion and culture, war and non-violence, and mindfulness and medicine. Among his honors are Fellow of The Hastings Center since 1995, the 2024 Trow Teaching Award from the School of History, Philosophy, and Religion, OSU Recognizing Excellence Honor in 2023, Dean’s Honors College Outstanding Faculty Award in 2015, and multiple Mortar Board Top Professor awards. In 2025, he was named the Margaret and Thomas Meehan Honors College Eminent Professor for the second time. His influence extends through editorial roles, including past Editor of the Hastings Center Report and service on boards for Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics and Christian Bioethics.

Key publications include books Mormonism, Medicine, and Bioethics (Oxford University Press, 2021), Bearing Witness: Religious Meanings in Bioethics (Cascade Press, 2019), and Duties to Others, edited (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994). Selected recent articles are “Associations between Physicians’ Personal End-of-Life Preferences and Their Own Clinical Practice” (Palliative Medicine, 2024), “Bioethics and Medical-Assisted Dying” (Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 2019), and “Imposing Death: Religious Witness on Brain Death” (Hastings Center Report, 2018).