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Stacey Camp

  • Associate Professor of Anthropology
  • Graduate Program Director
  • Director, MSU Campus Archaeology Program

Contact

McDonel Hall, E-34

campstac@msu.edu

http://www.internmentarchaeology.org

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stacey-camp-5096a76b/

Research Interests

    Historical Archaeology
    Immigration
    Incarceration and Institutional Confinement
    Citizenship and National Identity
    Late 19th/Early 20th Century United States
    Tourism Studies
    Public Archaeology
    Digital Archaeology
    Heritage & Collections Management
    Archaeology of Asian Diaspora
    Contemporary Archaeology
    Memory Studies

Biographical Info

STACEY L. CAMP is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the MSU Campus Archaeology Program at Michigan State University. 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 Western 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. She has conducted ethnography and archaeological research in the Midwestern and Western United States, China, and Ireland.

Since 2009, she has been excavating and studying the remains of Idaho's Kooskia Internment Camp, a World War II Japanese-American incarceration camp. This research has been featured in a number of media outlets, including Japan's Fuji News (TV), Al Jazeera America (TV), PRI's (Public Radio International) The World (radio), Germany's Der Spiegel Online (newspaper/blog), CBS San Francisco (TV) and The Associated Press (wire service). More information about her research can be found on her Kooskia Internment Camp Archaeological Project website (www.internmentarchaeology.org).

In 2020, Dr. Camp and Dr. Ethan Watrall received a 3 year $379,000 National Park Service Japanese American Confinement Sites program grant to bring archival and archaeological data associated with the Kooskia Internment Camp and Minidoka War Relocation Center online and available to the public. Dr. Camp has received three of these grants in the past to support archaeological excavations and laboratory research at the Kooskia Internment Camp.

Current Research Projects

2009-Present The Kooskia Internment Camp Archaeological Project
2020-Present COVID-19 Materiality and Landscapes Project with Dante Angelo, Kelly Britt, and M. Lou Brown

Publications

In review. "The Archaeology of Children on Michigan State University's Campus." Co-authored with Jeffrey Burnett and Autumn Painter. In Post-Contact Archaeology of the Great Lakes Region, Sarah Surface-Evans and Misty Jackson, eds. University of Alabama Press. 
In press. "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, ed. 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.