Research areas
Arctic/Polar politics, history and security
Environmental non-governmental organization
Diplomacy and legitimacy
Indigenous and traditional rights
Cultural and Economic Violence
Funded projects
Travel Award - Joan Mitchell Travel Award awarded by the Wilfrid Laurier University Archives, Wilfrid Laurier University to support a visiting stay in 2023-2024 at the university to access the Environmental Conservation Movement and Canadian North archival holdings
Fellow of the JR Smallwood Foundation – “Amending the EU Seal Product Ban”; 2020-2022; JR Smallwood Foundation
Northern Scholar Fellow - "Moral Legitimacy and Stigma and Environmental Activism in the 21st Century: Greenpeace in the Arctic"; 2022-2023; Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow – “Breaking the Ice: INGOs as Arctic Council Observer Status Applicants”; 2018-2020; EU Horizon 2020 (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/746312/results)
Carlsberg Foundation Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship – “Is the Arctic Council a Modern Day League of Nations? The Influence of Exclusivity, Climate Change and Regional Institutions”; 2016-2018; Carlsberg Foundation (https://www.carlsbergfondet.dk/en/Forskningsaktiviteter/Research-Projects/Other-Research-Projects/Danita-Catherine-Burke_Arctic-Council)
Selected publications
Burke, D.C. (2023) Cultural Violence, Stigma and the Legacy of the Anti-Sealing Movement. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Cultural-Violence-Stigma-and-the-Legacy-of-the-Anti-Sealing-Movement/Burke/p/book/9781032397900.
Burke, D.C. (2022) WWF and Arctic environmentalism Conservationism and the ENGO in the Circumpolar North. Manchester University Press. https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526153821/wwf-and-arctic-environmentalism/.
Burke, D.C. (2021) “The Case for a Greenpeace Apology to Newfoundland and Labrador.”The Northern Review. https://thenorthernreview.ca/index.php/nr
Burke, D.C. (2020) “Re-establishing Legitimacy after Stigmatization: Greenpeace in the North American North.” Polar Record 56(e26): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247420000285
Burke, D.C. (2019) Diplomacy and the Arctic Council. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press. https://www.mqup.ca/diplomacy-and-the-arctic-council-products-9780773559196.php
Burke, D.C. (2019) “Club Diplomacy in the Arctic.” Global Governance 25(2): 304–326. https://doi.org/10.1163/19426720-02502004
Burke, D.C. and Phelps Bondaroff, Teale N. (2019) “Becoming an Arctic Council NGO Observer.” Polar Record 54(5-6): 349-359. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247419000044
