Publications
Writing, media, and public scholarship connected to projects, places, and object-centered research across the site.
15 of 15 publications
Journal Article
Luminescence dating of sediments and a ceramic sherd from Providence Island adds scientific evidence for activity centuries before the 1822 settlement and opens new questions about Liberia's deeper Indigenous past.
Dissertation
My dissertation develops a framework for equitable interpretation and shared stewardship of African material culture through 3D technologies, immersive experiences, and community-engaged research.
Essay
An essay tracing how Liberian VR fieldwork, museum infrastructure needs, and community knowledge shaped Loci, a 3D-enabled platform for citable interpretation.
Documentary
A 15-minute Roberta Buffett Institute documentary on Craig Stevens' dissertation research using photogrammetry, 3D digitization, and virtual reality to support community interpretation of dispersed African cultural objects.
Article
Traveling Treasures connects Liberians with dispersed cultural heritage through immersive technologies designed to bridge continents and histories.
Chapter
Artefacts, sites, and landscapes of Liberian pasts hold overlapping signatures of settlement, slavery's afterlives, and Black sovereignty.
Video
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
This introduction frames archaeology as a discipline capable of documenting Black creativity, action, and struggle across global contexts.
Journal Article
This article argues that Providence Island cannot be understood through a simple pre- and post-settlement divide.
Video
A Northwestern IT video documenting how Augmented Curiosities uses VR and AR to place African material culture in visitors' hands.
Podcast
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
This article situates Liberia's founding within longer histories of Pan-African aspiration, return, and material struggle.
Journal Article
This article links nineteenth-century settler material worlds to the vestiges of more recent violence on Liberia's postwar landscape.
Interview
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
This early BAHA publication frames Liberia's Back-to-Africa history as a significant but under-investigated archaeological field.