Christensen’s research interests cover religion in colonial Latin America, Nahua and Maya studies, and Nahuatl and Yucatec Maya colonial texts. His recent publications include the Teabo Manuscript: Maya Christian Copybooks, Chilam Balams, and Maya Text Production (2016) and Native Wills from the Colonial Americas: Dead Giveaways in a New World (co-edited with Jonathan Truitt, 2016).