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Casey Burkholder

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  • Associate Professor, Education

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Research activities

Selected Research & Projects

Pride/Swell . (2020-present): https://prideswell.org 

SexualityNB. (2020-present): https://sexualitynb.org 

Queer Histories Matter. (2018-2021). https://queerhistoriesmatter.org

Publications

Edited Books

Burkholder, C., Schwab-Cartas, J. & Aladejebi, F. (2023). Facilitating visual socialities: Enacting ethical practices in visual research facilitation. Palgrave MacMillan. 

Burkholder, C., Aladejebi, F. & Schwab-Cartas, J. (2022). Facilitating community research for social change: Case studies in qualitative, arts-based and visual research. Routledge. 

Burkholder, C. & Thompson, J. (2020). Fieldnotes in qualitative education and social science research: Approaches, practices, and ethical considerations. Routledge. 

MacEntee, K., Burkholder, C., & Schwab-Cartas, J. (Eds.). (2016). What’s a cellphilm?: Integrating mobile phone technology into participatory visual research and activism. Brill/Sense.

Selected Articles

Burkholder, C. Keehn, M., MacEntee, K., Hill, M., Beaumont, A. & Hunt, S. (2024). “There’s a lot of DIY joy”: Elevating queer joy through participatory visual research with 2SLGBTQIA folks in Atlantic Canada. Journal of Gender Studies. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09589236.2024.2387192#abstract 

Burkholder, C. & Keehn, M. (2024). Mobilizing femme pedagogy in sexuality education in New Brunswick, Canada. Curriculum Inquiry. 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/03626784.2024.2360569

Byers, S., O’Sullivan, L. & Burkholder, C. (2024). How Prepared are Teachers to Provide Sexual Health Education? American Journal of Sexuality Education. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15546128.2024.2344518 

Burkholder, C. & Keehn, M. (2024). "In some ways they’re the people who need it the most": Mobilizing queer joy with sex ed teachers in New Brunswick, Canada. Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education. 1(2), 1-15. Retrieved from https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/jqtsie/vol1/iss2/1. 

Saul, R., Burkholder, C. & Gerbrandt, J. (2024). Temporal seeing as visual literacy. Journal of Literacy Research. 56(2), 123-132. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1086296X241244682

Keehn, M., Burkholder, C., MacEntee, K., Hill, M., Poirer, I. & Beaumont, A. (2024). Doing it together, but in a queer way: Joyful worldmaking with 2SLGBTQI folks in Atlantic Canada. Journal of LGBT Youth. https://doi.org/10.1080/19361653.2024.2302034 

Burkholder, C. & Keehn, M. (2023). “Something that is so overlooked”: Joyfully exploring queer bodies and sexualities in sex education in New Brunswick, Canada through participatory art production. Sex Education. 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2023.2296984 

Burkholder, C., MacEntee, K., Thorpe, A & Pride/Swell. (2023). Solidarity through mail-based participatory visual research: Reflections from an art, activism & archiving project with 2SLGBTQ youth amidst COVID-19. Feminist Review. 135(1), 1-22. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01417789231205297 

Burkholder, C., Hamill, K. & Thorpe, A. (2023). Speaking back to gender-based violence in New Brunswick schools through queer maker literacies with 2SLGBTQ youth. Journal of Youth Studies. DOI: 10.1080/13676261.2023.2246910 

Alderson, C., Brooke, A., Burkholder, C., Gerbrandt, M., Hartnet, K., Heer, A., Karma, P., Keehn, M., Palmer-Carroll, L. (2023). What meaning can we make together?: On learning to code qualitative research data with graduate students in education. Canadian Journal for New Scholars in Education, 14(1), 12-22, https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/cjnse/issue/view/5394 

Lebel, S, Cruickshank, L. & Burkholder, C. (2022). Pivoting feminist praxis: From a writing collective to pandemic pedagogies. Feminist Pedagogy. 2(1), 1-6, https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/feministpedagogy/vol2/iss1/5 

Burkholder, C., Aladejebi, F. & Schwab-Cartas, J. (2022). Embracing new paths in visual research facilitation: Opportunities, tensions & ethical considerations, Visual Studies, 37(1-2), 7-10, DOI: 10.1080/1472586X.2021.1962735 

Burkholder, C. & Thorpe, A. (2022). Facilitating gender-affirming participatory visual research in embodied and online spaces. Visual Studies, 37(1-2), 37-46. DOI: 10.1080/1472586X.2021.1982650 

Rogers, M. & Burkholder, C. (2022). “I feel like there should have been an opportunity for consultation”: Navigating pandemic education reforms with New Brunswick teachers. Our Schools/Our Selves: Education in crisis. 9-13. https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/ourschools-ourselves 

Burkholder, C. & Chase, A. (2021). Exploring the creative geographies of work with pre- service social studies teachers: Exposing intersections of time and labour in New Brunswick, Canada. McGill Journal of Education, 55(3), 1-20. https://mje.mcgill.ca/issue/view/573 

Burkholder, C. (2021). Cellphilming and building solidarity with queer youth to speak back to historical erasures in New Brunswick Social Studies classrooms. The Councilor: A Journal of the Social Studies. 0(1), 113-132. https://thekeep.eiu.edu/the_councilor/vol0/iss1/

10 Burkholder, C., MacEntee, K., Mandrona, A., & Thorpe, A. (2021). Co-producing digital archives with 2SLGBTQ Atlantic Canadian youth amidst COVID-19. Qualitative Research Journal. Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/QRJ-01-2021-0003. 

Burkholder, C., Hamill, K. & Thorpe, A. (2021). Zine production with queer youth and pre-service teachers in New Brunswick, Canada: Exploring connection, divergences and visual practices. Canadian Journal of Education. 44(1), 89-115. https://journals.sfu.ca/cje/index.php/cje-rce/article/view/4535 

Burkholder, C., Ramos Pakit, A., & Soriano, J. (2021). Examining gender and resistance with Filipina young women in post-Umbrella Revolution Hong Kong through cellphilm method and collaborative writing. Studies in Social Justice, 15(1), 25-42. https://journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/SSJ/issue/view/127 

Burkholder, C. & Rogers, M. (2020). Screening participatory visual research in live-audience and online spaces: Tensions, contradictions, and opportunities. Visual Methodologies, 8(1), 1-15. https://journals.sfu.ca/vm/index.php/vm/article/view/129/111 

Burkholder, C. & Hamill, K. (2020). Pandemic Geography methods: Exploring space, place, humans and the Anthropocene in the Covid-19 Pandemic. Textshop Experiments, 7(5). http://textshopexperiments.org/textshop07-5/pedagogy-pop-up/pandemic-geography-teaching 

Burkholder, C. (2020). Exploring participatory visual research methodologies with queer, trans, and non-binary youth in a research for social change framework. Antistasis, 10(10), 130-142. https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/antistasis/article/view/30376/1882526417 

Saul, R. & Burkholder, C. (2020). Intellectualizing whiteness as a response to campus racism: Some concerns. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 1-18 doi: 10.1080/01419870.2019.1654116 

Saul, R., & Burkholder, C. (2020). Making waste as a practice of freedom: On temporality and time wasting in the academy. Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education, 19 (3). Retrieved from https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/taboo/vol19/iss3/2 

Burkholder, C. & Thorpe, A. (2019). Cellphilm production as posthumanist research method to explore injustice with queer youth in New Brunswick, Canada. Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology, 10(2-3), 292-309. https://doi.org/10.7577/rerm.3680

 Burkholder, C. & Frawley, A. (2019). Revisiting and disrupting uncritical diversity narratives through autoethnography and cellphilming. LEARNing Landscapes, 12(1), 63-76. 

Saul, R. & Burkholder, C. (2019). Schooling futures in tension: On competing discourses at a technology education summit. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy. 1-22. doi: 10.1080/15505170.2019.1611679

Selected Book Chapters

Burkholder, C. (2024). Reflexively revisiting three participatory cellphilm archives. In C. Mitchell, H. Sadati, L. Starr and S. Roy (Eds.). Revisioning cellphilming methodology. Springer. 

Burkholder, C., Poirer, I., MacEntee, K., Beaumont, A., Weaver, B., & Pride/Swell . (2024). Participatory archiving as accompaniment: Co-curating an archive of 2SLGBTQ youth produced art for exhibition and solidarity building. Research as accompaniment: A community-focused, relationship-aligned, and action-oriented approach. Routledge. 

Simon, S. Burkholder, C. & Pride/Swell. (2024). Resilience and solidarity building on Instagram: Exploring art, activism, and participatory analysis with Indigenous peoples and 2SLGBTQ youth in the Wabanaki Confederacy. Exploring the human story: Arts-based approaches to qualitative inquiry in educational studies. Routledge. 

Burkholder, C. & Thompson, J. (2024). Teaching fieldnotes. In A. Ruth, A. Wutich & H.R. Bernard (Eds.) The handbook of teaching qualitative and mixed methods research: A step-by-step guide, (pp. 97-101). Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003213277-25 

Burkholder, C., Schwab-Cartas, J. & Aladejebi, F. (2023). Introduction. Facilitating visualities: Enacting ethical practices in visual research. In C. Burkholder, J. Schwab-Cartas & F. Aladejebi (Eds.) Facilitating visual socialities: Enacting ethical practices in visual research facilitation. Palgrave MacMillan. 

Burkholder, C., Thorpe, A. & Pride/Swell. (2023). Facilitating gender-affirming participatory visual research in embodied and online spaces. In C. Burkholder, J. Schwab-Cartas & F. Aladejebi (Eds.) Facilitating visual socialities: Enacting ethical practices in visual research facilitation. Palgrave MacMillan. 

Burkholder, C., Schwab-Cartas, J. & Aladejebi, F. (2023). Facilitating ethical visual sociological research: What difference can we make together? In C. Burkholder, J. Schwab-Cartas & F. Aladejebi (Eds.) Facilitating visual socialities: Enacting ethical practices in visual research facilitation. Palgrave MacMillan. 

Burkholder, C. & MacEntee, K. (2023). What does a cellphilm (cellphone film production intention) sound like? The ethics and aesthetics of sound and silence within cellphilm method. In S. Woodland & W. Vachon (Eds.), Sonic engagement: The ethics and aesthetics of community engaged audio practice. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003164227-8 

Burkholder, C. (2022). Teaching geography education in the Anthropocene: Focusing on settler colonialism, slow violence, and solidarity-building in New Brunswick through DIY art production. Teaching in the Anthropocene. (pp. Canadian Scholars/Women’s Press. 

Noreiga A. & Burkholder, C. (2022). Forging queer solidarities in Trinidad and Tobago and New Brunswick, Canada through cellphilm method. Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2021, 42, 119-137. 

Burkholder, C., Aladejebi, F. & Schwab-Cartas, J. (2022). What about facilitation? Thinking about ethical considerations in qualitative, community-based, and visual research for social change. Leading and listening to community: Facilitating qualitative, arts-based, and visual research for social change. (pp. 1-14). Routledge. 

Burkholder, C., Aladejebi, F. & Schwab-Cartas, J. (2022). What have we learned about facilitation? Concluding thoughts. Leading and listening to community: Facilitating qualitative, arts-based, and visual research for social change. (pp. 277-287). Routledge. 

Weaver, B., Thorpe, A., Mandrona, A., MacEntee, K., Burkholder C. & Pride/Swell (2022). Theorizing non-participation in a mail-based participatory visual research project with 2SLGBTQ youth in Atlantic Canada. Leading and listening to community: Facilitating qualitative, arts-based, and visual research for social change. (pp. 127-142). Routledge. 

Burkholder, C., Aladejebi, F., & Thompson, J. (2022). Engaging DIY media making to explore existing dystopic conditions with queer youth in New Brunswick, Canada. In C. Lee, C. Burnett & J. Rowesell (Eds.) Literacy in Uncertain Times. (pp. 165-180). Springer. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-16-6944-6_11 

Burkholder, C. (2021). Think/Film/Screen/Change: Negotiating ethics with rural New Brunswick girls and non-binary youth. In. R. Moletsane, A. Mandrona & L. Wiesbesiek (Eds.), Ethical practice in participatory visual research with girls: Transnational approaches, (pp. 43-63). Bergahn. 

Burkholder, C., Cruickshank, L., & Lebel, S. (2021). Feminist write club as activist practice: Creating space for collaboration, solidarity, and strategizing within the institution. Sister scholars: Untangling issues of identity as women in the academy. (pp. 31-40). DIO Press. 

Burkholder, C. & Cutrara, S. (2020). Pandemic pedagogy. Casey Burkholder in conversation with Dr. Samantha Cutrara. (Imagining a New We video series). Pandemic Pedagogy. Open educational resource. https://pressbooks.library.yorku.ca/pandemicpedagogy/chapter/caseyburkholder30/ 

Burkholder, C. (2020). Chapter 10: Looking within and looking around: On cellphilming with pre-service Social Studies teachers in Prince Edward Island. In K.C. Schmitz, M. Cotnam-Kappel, & N. Grant, (Eds). Infiltrating, interrupting, investigating: Radical youth pedagogy in education, (pp. 167-178). DIO Press. 

Burkholder, C. & Rogers, M. (2020). Moving beyond celebration toward action: Screening cellphilms and participatory videos for different audiences. In M. Carter, C. Mitchell & H. Mreiwed (Eds.), Art as an agent for social change, (pp. 10-20). Brill/Sense. 

Thompson, J. & Burkholder, C. (2020). What about fieldnotes? An introduction to the collection. In C. Burkholder & J. Thompson (Eds.), (pp. 1-12). Fieldnotes in qualitative education and social science research: Approaches, practices, and ethical considerations. Routledge. 

Burkholder, C. (2020). Analysing visual fieldnotes: Looking back on an archive of comic-style fieldnotes. In C. Burkholder & J. Thompson (Eds.), (pp. 234-248). Fieldnotes in qualitative education and social science research: Approaches, practices, and ethical considerations. Routledge. 

MacEntee, K., Burkholder, C., & Schwab-Cartas, J. (2019). Cellphilms. In P. Leavy (Ed.) The Oxford handbook of methods for public scholarship, (pp. 419-442). Oxford University Press. 

Gube, J. & Burkholder, C. (2019). Unresolved tensions in Hong Kong’s racialized discourses: Implications for education of ethnic minorities. In J. Gube & F. Gao (Eds.), Education, ethnicity and inequality in multilingual Asian context, (pp. 105-122). Springer.
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