08/03/2025
Judith (Judee) Burr studies the history of living with fire and governing wildfire risk in western North America. Her work draws from work in environmental history, the feminist environmental humanities, Indigenous feminist theory, 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 work has also been shaped by practitioners of Indigenous fire stewardship. She produced the public audio documentary podcast “Listening to Fire Knowledges in and around the Okanagan Valley” that was published in BC Studies and the mini series "The Right to Feel" with the UBC Centre for Climate Justice released by the podcast Future Ecologies. She was previously a 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 now pursuing her PhD in Geography at UBC. Listen to her podcast at the link in our bio!
