Alicia V. Stevens, Gates Cambridge Scholar with MPhil (distinction) and PhD from the department of archaeology at the University of Cambridge, and a postdoctoral member of the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre coordinating the Heritage, Memory, and Identity Pillar with Dr Dacia Viejo-Rose. Her research intersects heritage studies and political anthropology with focus on the political uses of culture amid repressive regimes, from colonialism and military authoritarianism to transitioning political systems. Her monograph, Heritage, Power, and Liminality: Culture and the Crisis of Authoritarian Transitions in Myanmar (2026, forthcoming) appears in the Routledge Contemporary Liminality Series. Prior to Cambridge, Dr. Stevens spent two decades in the museum sector running global programs for the Smithsonian Institution, the American Museum of Natural History, and Columbia University. Her professional work has taken her to 120+ countries, and she is a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society. Dr. Stevens also holds an MSc. from Columbia University in communications and a BA from the University of Michigan in writing and Russian literature.
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