Dr. Mark V. Campbell is the founder of Northside Hip-Hop Archive, and he has spent two decades in the Toronto hip-hop scene djing on the Bigger Than Hip-Hop radio show from 1998-2015. Since the launch of Northside in 2010, Mark has curated exhibitions of archival items and artistic works related to Canadian hip-hop on three continents, including The T-Dot Pioneers Trilogy, 2010-2013, Mixtapes: Hip-Hop’s Lost Archive, …Everything Remains Raw: Photographing Toronto Hip-Hop Culture from Analogue to Digital as part of the 2018 Contact Festival exhibition at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, and For the Record: An Idea of the North at the TD Gallery in Toronto.

Mark’s research explores the relationships between Afrosonic innovations and notions of the human. He is Associate Chair in the Arts, Culture and Media department, the 2020-21 Jackman Humanities Institute UTSC Fellow and a Connaught Early Career Fellow at the University of Toronto. In 2015, Mark was appointed Member of the Board at the Ontario Arts Council and has served on juries for the Toronto Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, The United Way Peel, Social Science and Humanities Council of Canada, and the City of Toronto.