Craig Stevens Research Interface
I build 3D, XR, and digital heritage platforms that connect archaeology, museums, and community knowledge to make African and African diasporic heritage collections more accessible and collaborative.
Woman shaped wood spoon | Field Museum of Natural History | Chicago, IL
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Liberia-based research linking fieldwork, immersive interpretation, heritage collaboration, and 3D documentation.
Associated Project
Archaeological and digital heritage research examining the cultural legacy of Black American and Afro-Barbadian settlement in Liberia.
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Article
A SAPIENS article showing how immersive technology can reconnect communities with heritage held at a distance.
"Traveling Treasures puts Liberians directly in touch with dispersed cultural heritage through immersive technologies that bridge continents and histories."
Chapter
A chapter tracing how Liberia's ruins and monuments register unsettled histories of settlement, undoing, and Black futurity.
"Liberia's monuments and ruins register Atlantic colonial pasts, afterlives of slavery, and unfolding visions of Black sovereignty."
Video
A video publication documenting how immersive exhibition design, African studies collections, and museum storytelling come together through XR.
"Augmented Curiosities uses VR and AR to promote the Herskovits collection and provoke new conversations about museum storytelling."
Craig Stevens is a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at Northwestern University working at the intersection of archaeology, digital heritage, and museum studies. His work advances a model of material culture diplomacy, using 3D databases, immersive exhibitions, and community-centered research methods to reshape how African and African diasporic heritage is documented, interpreted, and shared.
I’m a Research Associate in Northwestern’s Material History Lab and an Innovator-in-Residence with Northwestern University IT. My fieldwork and collaborations span Liberia, Nigeria, and U.S. museum collections, supported by the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the Buffett Dissertation Fellowship — with publications in SAPIENS, American Antiquity, American Anthropologist, and Routledge.
