Article
Traveling Treasures: How 3D Technology Connects Liberians to Their History
Traveling Treasures connects Liberians with dispersed cultural heritage through immersive technologies designed to bridge continents and histories.
LocationsLiberia
Publications
Published bibliography
Writing, media, and public scholarship connected to projects, places, and object-centered research across the site.
11 of 11 publications
Chapter
Archaeologies of Black Futurity: Sketches of Liberia's Monuments and Ruins
Artefacts, sites, and landscapes of Liberian pasts hold overlapping signatures of settlement, slavery's afterlives, and Black sovereignty.
LocationsLiberiaProvidence Island
Video
SBA Student Spotlight | Craig Stevens
A short-form video spotlight from the Society of Black Archaeologists on Craig's path into archaeology, recent Nigerian fieldwork, and why museums plus VR/AR are becoming central to how archaeological data reaches public audiences.
Special Issue Introduction
Global Archaeologies of the Long Emancipation: An Introduction
This introduction frames archaeology as a discipline capable of documenting Black creativity, action, and struggle across global contexts.
LocationsLiberia
Journal Article
The Archaeology of Providence Island: Liberian Heritage beyond Settlement
This article argues that Providence Island cannot be understood through a simple pre- and post-settlement divide.
LocationsLiberiaProvidence Island
Video
Augmented Curiosities | MTI x Herskovits Library of African Studies
A Northwestern IT video documenting how Augmented Curiosities uses VR and AR to place African material culture in visitors' hands.
LocationsMelville J. Herskovits Library of African StudiesEvanston
Podcast
Immersive Material Culture: 3D Digitization for Community Representation in Liberia and Nigeria
A KUAF · Undisciplined conversation with Dr. Caree Banton and Dr. Karynecia Conner on 3D digitization, VR, and returning interpretive authority over diaspora collections to source communities in Liberia and Nigeria.
Journal Article
Migration as Resistance? Liberia and the Back-to-Africa Heritage and Archaeology Research Project
This article situates Liberia's founding within longer histories of Pan-African aspiration, return, and material struggle.
LocationsLiberiaProvidence Island
Journal Article
Aspirational architecture and AK-47s: Fragmented violence in Liberia from settlement to the contemporary
This article links nineteenth-century settler material worlds to the vestiges of more recent violence on Liberia's postwar landscape.
LocationsLiberia
Interview
How to Become an Archeologist | His Story
A video interview with Hey Ms Traveler tracing Stevens' path into archaeology — from the Italian dig that started it all to the digital and immersive methods reshaping how history is made accessible.
Journal Article
Back-to-Africa Archaeology and Heritage in Liberia
This early BAHA publication frames Liberia's Back-to-Africa history as a significant but under-investigated archaeological field.
LocationsLiberia