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Casey Burkholder

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  • Tier II Canada Research Chair in Social Justice in Youth and Child Studies, Education

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Research activities

Selected Research & Projects

The JOYLab (2024-present): https://thejoylab.ca

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 Peer Review Articles


Burkholder, C., Wright, JJ. & Keehn, M. (2025).Queer joy as pedagogy. Teacher’s College Record Teachers College Record: TheVoice of Scholarship in Education, 0(0), 1-34. https://doi.org/10.1177/01614681251401633

 

Dudys, T., Orr, C. & Burkholder,C. (2025). Temporal disobedience: Intersex timescapes, chronopolitics, andqueer joy. Feminist Theory. 0(0). 1-23. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14647001251389818

 

Breau, C.,Burkholder, C. & Orr, C. (2025). Compulsory Dandyism? A Conversation on IntersexJoy and Desire between Dr. Christopher Breu, Dr. Casey Burkholder & Dr.Celeste Orr, Feminist Theory, 0(0). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/14647001251376267

 

Burkholder,C., Hill, M., MacEntee, K., Keehn, M. & Beaumont, A. (2025). “Dykes onDollars”: Theorizing femme and other queer futures in a participatory digitalarchive. Journal of Femininities. 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1163/29501229-bja10026


O’Sullivan, L., Byers, E.S. & Burkholder, C. (2025). How does sexual health education vary in quality of its delivery from theperspective of teachers? The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, 34(2), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.3138/cjhs-2025-000


Orr, C. E., & Burkholder, C. (2025). Introducing the special issue: on Intersex Joy. Feminist Theory, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14647001251367024


Burkholder, C., Malins, P., Whitty, P., & Razavi, Z.(2025). Centering queer joy in early childhood classrooms by co-constructinginvitations to play. The Critical Social Educator, 3(2), 26-52. https://doi.org/10.70707/ncsk11243d 


Mohammad, H., Burkholder, C. & Keehn, M. (2025).Unpacking the Islamophobic & queerphobic logics of the sexuality educationclassroom in New Brunswick, Canada: What might queer joy as praxis offer?Gender and Education. 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2025.2544534


Keehn, M., & Burkholder, C. (2025). ‘New Brunswick orqueer’: building queer joy through participatory collage-making with 2SLGBTQIA   youthin New Brunswick, Canada. Gender and Education, 37(5), 543–561. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2025.2506362


Burkholder, C., Whitty, P., Malins, P., & Keehn, M. (2025).On summoning queer joy in early childhood education: Some findings from NewBrunswick, Canada. Journal of Early Childhood Research. 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/1476718X251318894


Burkholder, C. & Keehn, M. (2024). “Is it Good or Bad to do Anal?”: Failures in Queer Joy and Sexuality Education. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy. 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/15505170.2024.2427013
 
Switzer, S., Alarcón, A., Gaztambide-Fernández, R., Burkholder, C., Howley, E. & Carrasco, F. (2024). Online and remote community-engaged facilitation:  Pedagogical and ethical considerations and commitments. Journalof Participatory Research Methods. 5(3). 1-31,
https://doi.org/10.35844/001c.116337
 
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. 54(1), 29–54.
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.
 

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 


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