Staff Profiles
I completed my PhD at Newcastle University in 2015 focussing on the remembrance and representation of Britain & the Cyprus conflict of 1974. My research and teaching interests span a range of topics associated with modern British, European and Cypriot history. In particular, I have a deep interest in the process of memory and the different means by which individuals and collectives attempt to make sense of the past. I teach on a range of undergraduate modules at Newcastle.
I have taught on a range of different modules at Newcastle University since 2013. In 2015-2016, I also taught at the University of Sunderland. The modules I am currently engaged in at Newcastle are:
HIS1030: Evidence and Argument
HIS2240: Greece from Ancient Times to the Twenty-First Century
HIS2249: Conflict, Colonialism and Conspiracies
HIS3000: Reading History
HIS3020: Writing History
HIS3343: The 'Reluctant Republic': Understanding the Cyprus Problem
HIS8053: Conflict in European History: Case Studies
HIS8105: Reform and Resistance in British History
- 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.
- 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.