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 is an interdisciplinary scholar of histories of living with wildfires and governing fire-prone landscapes. She is interested in historic crises of fire insurance and questions of communal support in disaster-prone landscapes; critical archival methods; oral history; historical narrative writing and uses of critical fabulation (Hartman); feminist frameworks of denaturalizing economic language and thought; and methodologies of reading across archives (Lowe 2022) for interdisciplinary connections.

She holds a MA in Interdisciplinary Studies from UBC-Okanagan, with a concentration in Digital Arts and Humanities, where her thesis used creative audio storytelling techniques to create a multi-vocal narration of regional fire history, taking the form of the public audio documentary podcast “Listening to Fire Knowledges in and around the Okanagan Valley.” She holds a BSc in Earth Systems and a BA in Philosophy from Stanford University. Her ancestors were 19^th and early 20^th century Italian, Finnish, German, and English colonists and immigrants to North America, and she grew up on Narragansett territory in Rhode Island.