Books
Kelly, Jason M. and Fiona P. McDonald. An Anthropocene Primer, Version 1.0. October 23, 2017. Available here: (LINK)
Peer Reviewed Book Chapters
McDonald, F.P. “The woollen blanket and its imagined value(s): material transformations of woollen blankets in contemporary art” in The Social Life of Materials. Edited by Susanne Kuechler and Adam Drazin. London: Bloomsbury. August 2015.
McDonald, F.P. “An Unexpected History Lesson: Meeting European ‘Colonial Girls’ through Knitting, Weaving, Spinning, and Cups of Tea” in Colonial Girls in the 19th Century (Edited by Michelle Smith and Kristine Moruzi). London: Palgrave‐Macmillan. 2014.
Evaluation and assessment Reports
Kelly, J.M, McDonald, F.P., Danter, E. The Co-Curricular Online Arts & Cultural Programs Study for the Arts Council of Indianapolis. 2016. Available with permission from the Arts Council of Indianapolis (LINK)
Book Reviews
McDonald, F.P. Visiting with the Ancestors: Blackfoot Shirts in Museum Spaces. Laura Peers and Alison K. Brown. Alberta: Athabasca University Press. Museums and Social Issues. Vol13. Fall 2017
McDonald, F.P. Comparative Book Review of: (1) “Museums and Communities, Curators, Collections and Collaboration.” Edited by Viv Golding and Wayne Modest. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013 / (2) “Gallery as Community: Art, Education, Politics.” London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2013. Curator: The Museum Journal. Spring 2014.
McDonald, F.P. Book Review of “Distributed Objects: Meaning and Matter after Alfred Gell.” Edited by Liana Chua and Mark Elliot. New York and London: Berghahn Books, 2013. Material Word Blog. January 2014. Available here: (LINK).
McDonald, F.P. Book Review of “Extra/Ordinary: Contemporary Art and Craft.” Edited by Maria Elena Buszek. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2011. Museum Worlds: Advances in Research 1 (June 2013): 241–252.
McDonald, F.P. Book Review of “(Re)Staging the Art Museum.” Edited by Tone Hansen. Oslo: Heine Onstad Kunstsenter, 2011. Museum Worlds: Advances in Research 1 (June 2013): 241–252.
Peer Reviewed, Solo Authored Articles
McDonald, F.P. "Performing Water Rights on Cochiti Dam." Special Issue: Water. Anthropology News. March/April 2018. Available here (LINK).
McDonald, F.P. “Marie Watt and an Ecology of Cultural Imagination’.” Surface Design Journal. October 2017. Available here (LINK).
McDonald, F.P. “Wairua”. ImagineNative. September 2016. Available here: (LINK)
McDonald, F.P. “Woollen Blankets in Contemporary Art: Mutability, Mobility, and Materiality in the work of Sonny Assu.” Material Culture Review 76 (response to themed issue: Objects in Motion). October 2013.
Co‐Authored & Peer‐Reviewed Journal Articles (Authorship in Alphabetical Order)
Campbell, C., Hennessy, K., McDonald, F.P., Smith, T., Takaragawa, S. “Form and Function: Between Art and Anthropology for the Ethnographic Terminalia Collective” in On Collaboration, edited by George E. Marcus and Dominic Boyer. Cornell University Press. Forthcoming 2018.
McDonald, F.P., Cantarella, Luke, and Murphey, Keith M. "Responsibility." Theorizing the Contemporary Series. Cultural Anthropology. July 27, 2017. (LINK)
Murphy, Keith M. McDonald F.P., Cantarella, Luke. "Collective Hunchwork." heorizing the Contemporary Series. Cultural Anthropology. July 27, 2017. (LINK)
Catarella, Luke. Murphy, Keith., McDonald, F.P. "E/Valuation." Theorizing the Contemporary Series. Cultural Anthropology. July 27, 2017. (LINK)
Fraser, J., McDonald F.P. Ardalan, N., Halpern. “Public Art + Science Reasoning”. Transformations: Journal of Media and Culture. Special Issue: Nexus of Art/Science. November 2015. Available here: (LINK)
2015. Campbell, C., Hennessy, K., McDonald, F.P., Smith, T., Takaragawa, S., and Miller, T.R.“Ethnographic Terminalia––After the Bureau of Memories: Reflections at the Intersections of Archives, Art, and Anthropology”. Adami, E. and Ferrini, A. Eds. Mnemoscape Vol. 2. March 2015. Available here: (LINK).
2013. Campbell, C., Hennessy, K., McDonald, F.P., Smith, T., Takaragawa, S. “Thinking Through Collaboration”. Anthropology News special series on “Collaboration”. Available here: (LINK)
2011. Brodine, M., Campbell, C., Hennessy, Kate., McDonald, F.P., Smith, T., Takaragawa, S. “Introduction”. Visual Anthropology Review. Vol. 27 (1).
2011. Hennessy, Kate, McDonald, F.P., Smith, T., Takaragawa, S. “27 Works”. Visual Anthropology Review. Vol. 27 (1).
On‐line Journal Articles and Websites
McDonald, F.P. “Plastic” Art: The work of Maika’i Tubbs.” Material World Blog. September 2013. Available here: (LINK)
McDonald, F.P. “Collaborating and Curating.” UCL Anthropology News. Autumn 2011.
McDonald, F.P. “Charting Material Memories”. Material World Blog. December 2010. Available here: (LINK)