Danielle Roth-Johnson received her doctorate from Stanford University and has taught at Penn State and the University of Texas-Arlington. Recipient of a UNLV Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award and a College of Liberal Arts Faculty-in-Residence Award for Excellence in Teaching, she has designed and taught a wide variety of courses not only for Gender & Sexuality Studies (including Feminist Theory, Gender, Sexuality & Religion, and Climate Justice), but also for Interdisciplinary Studies, the COLA First-year Seminar, French, and the Honors College as well. She has also published on a wide variety of subjects such as bioethics, religion, health, and the grassroots activism of reproductive and environmental justice groups.

Originally trained in French literature, French feminist theory, and applied linguistics, her most recent publications are “Misogynie et antisémitisme.” In Françoise d’Eaubonne, volume 1 (Pauline Launay & Irène-Lucile Hertzog, Eds.), Caen, France:  Éditions Grévis, 2025; "The Oceti Sakowin Water Protectors at Standing Rock Reservation and the Politics of Indigenous Feminist Spirituality." In Sacred Cultures in Global Politics (Roberta Sabbath and Daniel Nii Aboagye Aryeh, Eds.), DeGruyter Brill (forthcoming 2026); and "Intégrer les théories féministes et les cadres de justice environnementale dans l’économie politique internationale:  Le cas de #Defund DAPL." In Genre et Justice : perspectives croisées (Maureen Bal, Ophélie Colomb, Raphaël Demias-Morisset and Rym Fassi-Fihri, Eds.), Presses universitaires de Bordeaux (forthcoming 2026).