Wade Campbell is a Diné (Navajo) archaeologist whose research engages with broad questions concerning the longer-term history of Navajo settlement across the American Southwest. His current work explores the colonial-era relationship between the Navajo, Spanish, and other local groups in the American Southwest as it relates to incipient pastoralism and eventual changes in land-use, social organization, and diet/subsistence practices circa AD 1700. Wade also maintains interests in a wide array of issues including the practice of indigenous archaeology, cultural resource management, Native American higher education, and West Africa archaeology.