Stacey Camp
- (She/Her)
- Associate Professor of Anthropology; Director, Campus Archaeology Program; Curator of Archaeology, MSU Museum
- Anthropology
Biography
Stacey Camp is an Associate Professor of Anthropology, Director of the MSU Campus Archaeology Program, and Curator of Archaeology at the MSU Museum. She received her B.A. in Anthropology and English & Comparative Literary Studies from Occidental College, and her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stanford University in 2009. Prior to MSU, Dr. Camp oversaw one of Idaho’s three federal archaeological repositories and conducted collections management and compliance work for the state. She was also a faculty member at the University of Idaho from 2008 to 2017.
She is an historical archaeologist who examines migrant and diasporic communities living in the 19th and 20th century United States. Her publications explore how different facets of people’s identities – race, class, gender, and citizenship – shape their perceptions of consumerism and material culture. Her research also centers on the archaeology of conflict, war, and incarceration. She has conducted ethnography and archaeological research in the United States, China, and Ireland. She spent her 2026 sabbatical at the University of Antwerp on a FWO Scientific Stay grant from the Belgium government. In 2024, she was featured as part of PBS’s show Curious for Careers.
Since 2009, she has been excavating and studying the remains of Idaho’s Kooskia Internment Camp, a World War II Japanese American incarceration camp. More information about her research can be found on her Kooskia Internment Camp Archaeological Project website (research.internmentarchaeology.org). More recently, she oversaw a $379,000 National Park Service Japanese American Confinement Sites program grant to bring archival and archaeological data associated with Idaho’s Kooskia Internment Camp and Minidoka War Relocation Center online and available to the public. This project – www.internmentarchaeology.org – was completed in 2024. Dr. Camp has received three of these grants in the past to support research on the Kooskia Internment Camp.
She is one of the authors of two textbooks – Introducing Archaeology (Third Edition) with Robert Muckle and Through the Lens of Anthropology: An Introduction to Human Evolution and Culture (Third Edition) with Robert Muckle and Laura Tubelle de González. She is the sole author of her 2013 book, The Archaeology of Citizenship. She is currently writing a book on the history of university campuses.
Her favorite classes to teach at MSU are Lab Methods in Archaeology (ANP 463), Method & Theory in Historical Archaeology (ANP 461), and Field Methods in Archaeology (ANP 464).
Works
In progress. Excavating Higher Education: What the Past Can Tell Us about the Future of American Universities. Under contract with University Press of Florida.
In press. “Reaching Consensus in the Age of American Neoliberalism: The Role of Land Ownership in the Preservation of World War II Incarceration Sites.” In Second World War Archaeology at the Edge of Living Memory, Jennifer McKinnon and Gabe Moshenska, eds. London: University College London Press. Revisions submitted March 2, 2026.
2025. Co-authored with Jeffrey Burnett, Stacey L. Camp, and Autumn Painter (equal authorship). “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.
2023. Co-authored with Dante Angelo, Kelly M. Britt, and M. Lou Brown (equal authorship). “Collecting and Curating COVID-19 Heritage: Challenges of Conservation and Management.” Journal of Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13505033.2023.2283964
2023. “Introduction: Collecting, Conserving, Preserving: Making Sense of COVID-19.” Journal of Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13505033.2023.2283966
2023. Stacey L. Camp and Robert “Bob” Muckle. “Reflections on Archaeological Research on a Pandemic amid a Pandemic.” Journal of Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13505033.2023.2283965
2023. “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 Collaboration, Jon D. Daehnke and Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels, eds. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
2022. Robert Muckle, Laura González, and Stacey L. Camp (third author). Through the Lens of Anthropology: Introduction to Human Evolution and Culture, 3rd Edition. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
2022. “Teaching Archaeological Mapping and Data Management with KoBoToolbox.” Co-authored with Benjamin Carter, Autumn Painter, Sarah Rowe, and Kathryn Sampeck. In Digital Heritage & Archaeology in Practice, Lynne Goldstein and Ethan Watrall, eds. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
2022. Stacey L. Camp. Introduction: A New Era of University Campus Archaeological Programs. The SAA Archaeological Record 22(2): 14-16.
2022. Stacey L. Camp. Edited special edition of The SAA Archaeological Record on University Campus Archaeology Programs. Link: https://mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=740794
2022. Stacey L. Camp, Jodi Barnes, & Sarah Surface-Evans, editors. Health, Wellness, and Ability in Archaeology thematic edited volume of International Journal of Historical Archaeology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-021-00645-0
2022. Stacey L. Camp, Jodi Barnes, & Sarah Surface-Evans. Introduction: Health, Well-Being, and Ability in Archaeology. International Journal of Historical Archaeology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-021-00645-0
2021. “Private Struggles in Public Spaces: Documenting COVID-19 Material Culture and Landscapes.” Co-authored with Dante Angelo, Kelly Britt, and M. Lou Brown. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology 8(1):154-184. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.43379
2021. “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.
2020. “Everyday Objects: Toothbrushes and Teacups.” In A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age (AD 1900-Present), Laurie Wilkie and John Chenoweth, eds, pp. 107-124. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
2020. Muckle, Robert J. and Stacey L. Camp (second author). Introducing Archaeology (third edition). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
2020. “The Future of Japanese Diaspora Archaeology.” Thematic edition of the International Journal of Historical Archaeology. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10761-020-00564-6
2019. Camp, Stacey, Joseph Hefner, Lynne Goldstein, and Leigh Graves Wolf. “Building Archaeological Communities, Building Constituencies: Findings from an Archaeological STEM Camp for IB High School Students.” Journal of Community Archaeology & Heritage. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/20518196.2019.1674474
2019. “The Gendered Dimensions of Fieldwork in Historical Archaeology.” In Mothering from the Field: The Impact of Motherhood on Site-Based Research, Melanie-Angela Neuilly and Bahiyyah Muhammad, eds. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
2019. “The Archaeology of Vision and Ocular Health.” World Archaeology 50(3). DOI: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00438243.2018.1557542
2018. “Commentary: Excavating the Intimate.” Historical Archaeology 52(3). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41636-018-0133-8
2016. “Landscapes of Japanese American Internment.” Historical Archaeology 50(1):168-85. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03377183
2015. Laura Ng and Stacey L. Camp (second author). “Consumerism in World War II Japanese American Incarceration Camps.” In Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism, Mark P. Leone and Jocelyn F. Knauf, eds., pp. 149-80. New York: Springer.
2013. The Archaeology of Citizenship. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
2013. “From Nuisance to Nostalgia: The Historical Archaeology of Nature Tourism in Southern California, 1890-1940.” Historical Archaeology 47(3):81-96. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03376910
2013. “From Reform to Repatriation: Gendering an Americanization Movement in Early 20th Century California.” In Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on Gender Transformations: From Private to Public, Suzanne Spencer-Wood, ed., pp. 363-88. New York: Springer.
2013. Suzanne Spencer-Wood and Stacey L. Camp (second author). “Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on Gender Transformations: From Private to Public.” In Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on Gender Transformations: From Private to Public, Suzanne Spencer-Wood, ed., pp. 1-20. New York: Springer.
2012. “Baby Products.” In The Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage, William Rathje and Carl A. Zimrig, eds. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications.
2011. “Consuming Citizenship? The Archaeology of Mexican Immigrant Ambivalence in Early 20th Century Los Angeles.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology 15(3):305-28. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-011-0144-z
2011. “Materializing Inequality: The Archaeology of Tourism Laborers in Turn-of-the-Century Los Angeles.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology 15(2):279-97. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-011-0142-1
2011. “The Utility of Comparative Research in Historical Archaeology.” In The Importance of Material Things, Volume II, Julie M. Schablitsky and Mark P. Leone, eds., pp. 13-28. The Society for Historical Archaeology, Special Publications.
2010. “Teaching with Trash: Archaeological Insights on University Waste Management.” World Archaeology 42(3):430-42. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2010.497397
2007. Stacey L. Camp and Bryn Williams. “Contesting Hollywood’s Chinatowns.” In Box Office Archaeology: Refining Hollywood’s Portrayals of the Past, Julia M. Schablitsky, ed., pp. 200-22. Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press.
2006. “Narrative Disjunctures in Tourism Rhetoric at Brú na Bóinne Visitor Centre, Newgrange, Ireland.” In Tourism, Consumption, and Representation: Narratives of Place and Self, Alison Anderson, Kevin Meethan, and Steven Miles, eds., pp. 24-45. Wallingford: CAB International.
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