Writer
Carrie is editor of Dressing with Purpose: Belonging and Resistance in Scandinavia published in 2021 through Indiana University Press. Her chapter, “Public Folklore Curatorship: Collaborating with Emerging Refugee Communities,” was included in Folklife and Museums: Twenty-First Century Perspectives published by Rowman & Littlefield Press. Her poem “Absent Gods” appears in The Folklore Muse from University of Colorado Press. And her essay, “Curating In a Changing Museum World,” is included in the new collection What Folklorists Do: Professional Possibilities in Folklore Studies from Indiana University Press.
Her research has also appeared in Museum Anthropology Review, Midwestern Folklore, Practicing Anthropology, Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore, Selvedge, Nordic Kultur, and has been cited in The Guardian.
You can learn more about Carrie’s writing here.
Books
Dressing with Purpose: Belonging and Resistance in Scandinavia
Dress helps us fashion identity, history, community, and place. Dress has been harnessed as a metaphor for both progress and stability, the exotic and the utopian, oppression and freedom, belonging and resistance. Dressing with Purpose examines three Scandinavian dress traditions—Swedish folkdräkt, Norwegian bunad, and Sámi gákti—and traces their development during two centuries of social and political change across northern Europe.
Through lavishly illustrated and richly detailed case studies, Dressing with Purpose introduces readers to individuals who adapt and revitalize dress traditions to articulate who they are, proclaim personal values and group allegiances, strive for sartorial excellence, reflect critically on the past, and ultimately, reshape the societies they live in.
Chapters
A comprehensive guide to the range of good work carried out by today's folklorists, What Folklorists Do is essential reading for folklore students and professionals and those in positions to hire them.
Folklorists have been pioneers in museums for over half a century, moving the field toward more richly collaborative work, closer engagement with communities, and radically inclusive practices. This volume explores, from multiple angles, the significant and under-appreciated relationship between folklife and museums.
— William S. Walker, Associate Professor of History, Cooperstown Graduate Program, SUNY Oneonta
"[I] was delighted to find that the texts collected in this volume are thoroughly enjoyable and, moreover, demonstrate thoughtful, creative, and often aesthetically accomplished engagement with the people, ideas, and methods that inform contemporary folkloristics. Even as it presents non-scholarly work by scholars, the collection also contributes innovatively to folklore scholarship."
— Journal of Folklore Research
Read Online
Article
“Costuming Potential: Accommodating Unworn Clothes.” Museum Anthropology Review.
Article
“The Uniform: As Material, As Symbol, As Negotiated Object,” Midwestern Folklore.
Guest Blog Post
“On Taking Credit: Textile Traditions and Fashion Rip-Offs,” Shreds and Patches.
Article
“Finding the Local in the Global in the 21st Century,” Practicing Anthropology (Special Issue, Contemporary Work in Museums).
Research Report
“Fieldwork: Highlights from the Textile Group” (Research report on fieldwork in Guangxi, China for the China-U.S. Folklore and Intangible Cultural Heritage Project of the American Folklore Society), Shreds and Patches.
Article
“The Little Things: Uncovering Identity on Campus through Dress and Adornment,” Local Learning: Journal of Folklore and Education (Special Issue, Dress to Express: Exploring Culture and Identity).
Magazine Article
“Picturing the Future: Quilts of Southwest China.” El Palacio Magazine.