Danille Christensen

• Gendered/domestic labor
• Material culture (foodways, craft)
• Performance studies/Ethnography of communication
• Cultural and environmental sustainability
• Local knowledge

• Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington

• Material Culture and Public Humanities MA Program
• American Folklore Society
• American Studies Association
• Appalachian Studies Association
• Association for the Study of Food and Society

• Kluge Fellowship, The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, 2015
• Gerald E. and Corinne L. Parsons Fund for Ethnography Award, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, 2012
• Charles Redd Fellowship in Western American History, Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University, 2012

Books and Book Chapters

Freedom from Want: Home Canning in the American Imagination. Under contract, University of North Carolina Press.

“Doing Public Humanities.” In What Folklorists Do: Professional Realities and Possibilities in Folklore Studies, ed. Timothy Lloyd (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, forthcoming).

“Berries, Roots, Greens, and Seeds: Indigenous Cultivation of ʻWild’ Plants.” In This Is the Plate: Utah Food Traditions, edited by Carol A. Edison, Eric A. Eliason, and Lynne S. McNeill, 86–94. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2020.

“Gardening as Placemaking in Utah’s Communities.” In This Is the Plate: Utah Food Traditions, edited by Carol A. Edison, Eric A. Eliason, and Lynne S. McNeill, 184–98. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2020.

“‘Good Luck in Preserving’: Canning and the Uncanny in Appalachia.” 2019. In The Food We Eat, The Stories We Tell: Contemporary Appalachian Tables, edited by Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt and Lora E. Smith, 132–55. Athens: Ohio University Press.

“Still Working: Performing Productivity through Gardening and Home Canning.” 2018. In The Expressive Lives of Elders, edited by Jon Kay, 106–137. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Open access version available at https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dispace/handle/2022/22075

“(Not) Going Public: Mediating Reception and Managing Visibility in Contemporary Scrapbook Performance.” 2016. In Material Vernaculars: Objects, Images, and their Social Worlds, edited by Jason Baird Jackson, 40–104. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Open access version available at https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/20925

Journal Articles

• “No Doubt He’ll Want to Can It: Perspectives from Home, Field, and Factory.” 2019. Response to Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry by Anna Zeide. H-Environment Roundtable Reviews 9 (7): 8–19. 
• “Materializing the Everyday: ‘Safe’ Scrapbooks, Aesthetic Mess, and the Rhetorics of Workmanship.” 2017. Journal of Folklore Research 54 (3): 233–84. 
• “Provident Living”: Ethnography, Material Culture, and the Performance of Mormonism in Everyday Life." 2016. Mormon Studies Review 3: 37–52.
• “Current Studies of Food and Foodways.” 2014. Museum Anthropology Review 8(1).
• “Simply Necessity? Agency and Aesthetics in Southern Home Canning.” 2015. Special Food Issue. Southern Cultures 21(1): 15-42. 
• “‘Pure Hoosier’: Fieldwork, Food Guides, and Cultural Distinction.”2012. Journal of Folklore Research 49(1):97–106.
• “‘Look at Us Now!’: Scrapbooking, Regimes of Value, and the Risks of (Auto)Ethnography.” 2011. Journal of American Folklore 124(493):175–210.
• “‘Locating’ the Nation: Football Game Day and American Dreams in Central Ohio.” 2006. Journal of American Folklore 119(474):444–88.