Included here are works published in other venues. I have included links to PDF documents where possible and citations where publications reserve rights to access. Please enjoy! If you would like to use my ideas or words, please cite me by name and respect copyright. Please reach out if you would like to discuss my work! You can find my full CV here: Maria Kennedy CV
Article
“Exploring Un-cultivation in America: Discourses of Wild and Foraged Apples“
Plant Perspectives. Vol 2, No 2 (2025): Tree Cultures and the Arboreal Humanities
Article
“Agrarian Eve to Original Sin: Cultural Narratives of Women in the American Cider Industry.”
New Directions in Folklore. The Spirits of the Folk: Alcohol-Based Community Identity in the 21st Century, 17, no. 1 (April 2020). https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/ndif/issue/view/2016.
PhD Dissertation
Finding Lost Fruit: The Cider Poetic, Orchard Conservation, and Craft Cider Making in Britain.
Indiana University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017. 10640255.
Article
“Fruit in the Forest: Foraging Apples and Pressing Cider in the Finger Lakes.”
Voices, The Journal of the New York Folklore Society. Schenectady Vol. 43, Iss. 3/4, (Fall 2016-Winter 2017): 17-22.
Book Chapter
“The Foraged Countryside: Perceptions of Nature and Culture in Four Encounters with Fungi.”
Shaping Rural Areas in Europe: Perceptions and Outcomes on the Present and the Future. eds. Luís Silva and Elisabete Figueiredo. Springer, 2013.
Masters Thesis
“Narrating Horizons of Place: Community Geographies in Radio”
Joint MA: Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and School of Journalism, Indiana University
May 2009
Article
“Strangers Expected: Families Living Together in Scripture at the Bean Blossom Mennonite Church”
Midwestern Folklore. 34:1 (2008): 23-40.
Blog Posts: Announcements of Publications, Talks, and Academic Activities
Exhibit Review: Maria Prymachenko: Glory to Ukraine
Produced by The Ukrainian Museum by Peter Doroshenko (review) Published in the Journal of American Folklore Earlier this year, I published a review in the Journal of American Folklore of a wonderful…
Publication: Plant Perspectives
“Exploring Un-cultivation in America: Discourses of Wild and Foraged Apples” I’m excited to share a new publication in the journal Plant Perspectives! This publication is a special issue: “Tree cultures and the…
Foraged Fruit Talk for the Arboricultural Association
I was invited to give a webinar talk on the Foraged Fruit Project for the Arboricultural Association this week! You can find the talk here on their website: https://www.trees.org.uk/Training-Events/Webinars/Wild-orchards-in-the-American-Northeast-and-Urban-orchards-and-nature-based-solutions-in-Zagreb,-Cro The first…
American Food Course 2025
I’m excited to be teaching a new course this semester in the Department of American Studies at Rutgers University New Brunswick: “American Food.” This course was originally developed by my colleague…
Dear (Potential Grad Student) interested in plant / people studies
I was recently asked by a colleague to offer some advice to a potential grad student seeking programs where they could study at the intersection of plant science and social science.…
“The Architecture of Orchards” in Malus
I’m very excited to have my article, “The Architecture of Orchards” in Issue 14 of Malus, a mighty little publication spreading ideas within the cider industry. You can read my article…
Fruit in the Forest
I’m Happy to post a link to my article in Voices, the Journal of the New York Folklore Society: http://www.nyfolklore.org/pubs/v43fw3-4-2017/10-fw2017-kennedy-1.html The PDF of the article can also be downloaded here: Fruit…
PhD in Cider
When introducing me to new colleagues, friends, or relative strangers at dinner parties and conferences, some people like to joke, “Meet Maria, she has a PhD in Cider.” And now, friends,…
Cider With Maria 