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Stacey Camp

Curator of Archaeology

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Director, MSU Campus Archaeology Program (campusarch.msu.edu)
Principal Investigator, Kooskia Internment Archaeological Project (https://research.internmentarchaeology.org/)
Co-Principal Investigator, Internment Archaeology Digital Archive (internmentarchaeology.org)

Dr. Camp is an historical archaeologist who examines migrant and diasporic communities living in the 19th- and 20th-century United States. Her two primary archaeological projects have involved Mexican migrant workers living in early 20th-century California and Japanese Americans incarcerated in Idaho during World War II. She has conducted ethnographic, archival, and archaeological research in the United States, China, and Ireland. More recently, she has collaborated on a project studying COVID-19 artwork. She currently oversees MSU’s Campus Archaeology Program (CAP), which involves the preservation, protection, and mitigation of MSU’s below-ground heritage amid campus construction projects.

Selected Publications

  • 2023. Stacey L. Camp. “Collecting, Conserving, Preserving: Making Sense of COVID-19.” Journal of Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites 24(3/4). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13505033.2023.2283966
  • 2023. Dante Angelo, Kelly M. Britt, M. Lou Brown, and Stacey Camp (equal authorship). “Collecting and Curating COVID-19 Heritage: Challenges of Conservation and Management.” Journal of Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites 24(3/4). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13505033.2023.2283964
  • 2023. Stacey L. Camp. “Heritage in the Service of Neoliberalism: Visions of American Democracy in the “With Liberty and Justice for All” Exhibition at The Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan.” In Heritage and Democracy: Crisis, Critique, and Cooperation, Jon D. Daehnke and Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels, eds., pp. 67-88. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.2299524.11
  • 2021. Dante Angelo, Kelly M. Britt, M. Lou Brown, and Stacey Camp (equal authorship). “Private Struggles in Public Spaces: Documenting COVID-19 Material Culture & Landscapes.” Journal of Contemporary Archaeology 8(1): 21-49. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.4337
  • 2021. Stacey L. Camp. “Data Sharing and Database Management as Activism, or Solving the Curation Crisis One Small Project at a Time.” In Trowels in the Trenches: Archaeology as Social Activism, Chris Barton, ed., pp. 164-184. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
  • 2025. Jeff Burnett, Stacey L. Camp, and Autumn M. Painter. “The Archaeology of Children on Michigan State University’s Campus.” In Post-Contact Archaeology of Michigan and the Upper Great Lakes Region, Sarah L. Surface-Evans and Misty M. Jackson, eds., pp. 251-265. New York and Oxford: Berghahn.

Education

Ph.D., Anthropology, Stanford University, 2009
M.A., Cultural & Social Anthropology, Stanford University, 2004
B.A., Anthropology (honors) and English & Comparative Literary Studies (double major), Occidental College, 2001