Elise DeCamp

Dr. DeCamp has taught at Albion as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology since 2024. She earned her Bachelors in Anthropology from DePauw University and received her masters and doctoral degrees from the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University. She also completed a graduate certificate in Climate Change Policy and Management at Western Michigan University.

Her research in the earlier part of her career has focused on the impacts of social justice humor and comedy on audiences, with a focus on how strategies of persuasion in stand-up comedy facilitate the. reshaping of American attitudes toward race and identity. More recently DeCamp has completed and published research on racial bias in jury selection that has received national and regional media coverage. Her current research explores how higher education institutions might best support curricular integration of climate change education across the disciplines, with a particular focus on interdisciplinary professional development and transformative learning approaches.