Richard Campanella

Richard Campanella, a geographer with the Tulane University School of Architecture, is the author of numerous articles and seven critically acclaimed books about New Orleans, including Bourbon Street: A History, Lincoln in New Orleans, Bienville’s Dilemma, and Geographies of New Orleans. The only two-time winner of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year Award, Campanella has also received the Williams Prize for Louisiana History, the Tulane Mortar Board Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Hannah Arendt Prize for Scholarship in the Public Interest, and the Monroe Fellowship from the Tulane’s New Orleans Center for the Gulf South. He and his family live in New Orleans.

Books by Richard Campanella