Staff Profiles
Background
I taught at Newcastle University from 2013 to 2020. I am currently a Research Assistant at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, working on the 'Non-Commemoration' project. For more information see: Non-Commemoration Report: Commemoration Inequalities | CWGC
Research
Commemoration, history and memory, conflict and colonialism, migration and displacement, legacies of Empire, Oral History.
Publications
- Burke J, Hay G. Report of the Special Committee to Review Historical Inequalities in Commemoration. Maidenhead: Commonwealth War Graves Commission, 2021.
- Burke JE. Homes Lost in Conflict: Reframing the Familiar into New Sites of Memory and Identity on a Divided Island. History and Memory 2019, 31(2), 155-182.
- Burke J. The Legacies of Empire. https://www.realhistorymagazine.co.uk/: Real History Magazine, 2019. Available at: https://www.realhistorymagazine.co.uk/.
- Burke JE. An Eternal Balancing Act: Cyprus, Britain and the Refugee Question in the SBAs. Journal of Modern Greek Studies 2017, 35(2), 539-563.
- Burke JE. Britain and the Cyprus Crisis of 1974: Conflict, Colonialism and the Politics of Remembrance in Greek Cypriot Society. Routledge, 2017.