Pursuing a PhD degree

Supervisor: Matthew Evenden

Degrees: 

M.A., Interdisciplinary Studies: Digital Arts & Humanities, University of British Columbia Okanagan (2022)

B.Sc., Earth Systems, Stanford University (2012)

B.A., Philosophy, Stanford University (2012)

Research Statement: 

Judith (Judee) Burr studies the history of living with fire and governing wildfire risk in western North America. She draws from work in environmental history, the feminist environmental humanities, Indigenous feminism, critical archival studies, and feminist political economy and ecology to examine the construction of 20th century fire control and the forms of life that fire control techniques have enabled and constrained. Her scholarship has also been influenced by the teachings of practitioners of Indigenous fire stewardship in fire-prone places including the territories and homelands of the North Fork Mono, Karuk, Martu, Northern Kaanju, syilx, Secwépemc, and Nlaka’pamux Nations and peoples.

She is interested in creative and feminist methods, in and out of academic worlds, including audio documentary, poetry, and the lyric essay as form. She is currently Associate Editor of Podcasts for BC Studies. She produced the public audio documentary podcast “Listening to Fire Knowledges in and around the Okanagan Valley” as her MA thesis, and this was published in BC Studies. She produced the mini series “The Right to Feel” with the UBC Centre for Climate Justice, released by the podcast Future Ecologies. She previously held the positions of supervising producer for the SpokenWeb Podcast and a researcher for the podcast Philosophy Talk. She holds a MA in Interdisciplinary Studies (Digital Arts and Humanities Theme) from UBC-Okanagan, and a BSc in Earth Systems and a BA in Philosophy from Stanford University. She is a PhD Candidate in Geography at UBC.

Her ancestors were 19th and early 20th century Italian, Finnish, German, and English colonists to North America, and she grew up on Narragansett territory in Rhode Island.