Danielle BurkeGraduate Studentshe/her/hers

I am a material culture scholar whose dissertation research is focused on the intersecting histories of craft, home economics, and the postal service. In 2022 I received my MA in folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and in 2015 graduated with a BFA in fiber and humanistic studies from the Maryland Institute College of Art. I am also an exhibiting artist and curator; most recently I co-curated Head, Heart, and Hand: Making and Remaking at Berea College Student Craft.

Teaching Experience

• Dimensions of Material Culture

Awards and Recognition

• Jane Graff Textile Research Assistant, 2022–23
• Center for Craft Career Advancement Fellowship, 2022
• Summer Graduate Research Fellowship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2021
• Archie Green Fellowship in Occupational Folklore, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2021
• Windgate-Lamar Fellowship, 2015

Selected Publications

Burke, D. (2024). Soil and Life in the Field of Craft Studies. Journal of Modern Craft, 17(1), 59–69.

Burke, D. (2024). Our Stories Etched in Ivory/Qulip’yugut Iksiaqtuumaruat Tuugaami: The Smithsonian Collections of Engraved Drill Bows with Stories from the Arctic. Journal of American Folklore, 137(544), 249–251.