STACEY CAMP

Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Campus Archaeology Program 

Michigan State University

Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss lessons learned from over a decade of research on the archaeology of Japanese American internment and incarceration during World War II. I will focus on my research at Idaho’s Kooskia Internment Camp, a World War II incarceration facility for men of Japanese heritage deemed “enemy aliens” by the United States government. Artifacts recovered from two field seasons in 2010 and 2013 and archival documents shed light on how Kooskia’s prisoners were treated during the two years they were incarcerated. These lines of evidence also provide evidence that Japanese American prisoners were subjected to differential treatment based upon their citizenship status.

Bio:Stacey Camp is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Campus Archaeology Program (campusarch.msu.edu) at Michigan State University. Her research explores the lives of migrant and historically disenfranchised groups in the historic Western United States. She has also written on the topics of digital archaeology, heritage, tourism studies, health in the past, and, more recently, the materiality of COVID-19.

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