Katherine Burlingame

Postdoctoral Fellow - Archaeology

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Background

BA Classics; BA History; MA World Heritage Studies; PhD Human Geography

Crossing different time periods and geographical areas, my research profile is defined by a curiosity about the past, how it is communicated and experienced today, and how humans find meaning in, and connect with, the many-layered landscapes of the past and present surrounding us in a rapidly changing world.

After completing my BA in History and in Classics at Penn State University in the United States and working as an archaeologist in Greece, I received a DAAD graduate scholarship to study cultural and natural world heritage at BTU Cottbus in Germany. During my studies I served as a founding student member of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Places of Religion and Ritual (PRERICO).

In 2020 I earned my PhD from the Department of Human Geography at Lund University in Sweden. My doctoral monograph, Dead Landscapes – and how to make them live, includes a new heritage landscape analysis model that links and activates past and present functions of historical and archaeological landscapes. During this time I also worked as an external heritage consultant with the State Archaeological Office of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany on the UNESCO world heritage site nomination for the Archaeological Border Complex of Hedeby and the Danevirke.

My postdoctoral research on the Relics of Nature project funded by the Norwegian Research Council focuses on the UNESCO world heritage cultural and natural Laponian landscape in northern Sweden. Employing a more-than-human approach through the concept of ‘rewilding' to propose a stronger environmental ethic in heritage studies, the project analyzes shifting nature/culture entanglements, use-values, and management practices of natural and cultural heritage in a changing climate. I am an active member of ICOMOS Sweden and on the International Editorial Advisory Board for the Landscape Research Journal.

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Awards

Outstanding Early Career Alumni Award, Penn State University – 2023
Vetenskapssocieteten (The New Society of Letters) Dissertation Award, Lund University – 2021
Sustainable Heritage Research Forum Fellowship, Uppsala University – 2020
Besöksnäringens forsknings- och utvecklingsfond Årets Ciceron Nominee – 2020 and 2021
Grand Prize in Heritage, Eastern European Initiatives Congress – 2014
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Graduate Scholar – 2012-2013
Eugene N. Borza Award in Classics, Penn State University – 2011
Reverend Thomas Bermingham, S.J. Scholarship in Classics, Penn State University – 2011

Previous Publications

Burlingame, K. (2021). ‘Learning by Feeling: Excursions into the Affective Landscape.’ Journal of Geography in Higher Education. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/03098265.2021.1977917

Burlingame, K. (2020). Dead Landscapes – and How to Make Them Live. [Doctoral Dissertation, Lund University]. Available at: https://portal.research.lu.se/portal/en/publications/dead-landscapes--and-how-to-make-them-live(7470a71d-d10b-4163-b75b-84111066273d).html

Burlingame, K. (2020). ‘Hidden in the Mountains: Celebrating Swedish Heritage in Rural Pennsylvania’, in Lovell, J. and Hitchmough, S. (eds.) Authenticity in North America: Place, Tourism, Heritage, Culture and the Popular Imagination. London: Routledge, pp. 134-144. ISBN 9780429440212

Burlingame, K. (2019). ‘Presence in Affective Heritagescapes: Connecting Theory to Practice’, Tourism Geographies. 24(2-3), pp: 263–283. doi: 10.1080/14616688.2019.1696882

Burlingame, K. (2018). ‘Where Are the Storytellers? A Quest to (Re)enchant Geography Through Writing as Method’, Journal of Geography in Higher Education 43(1), pp. 56–70. doi: 10.1080/03098265.2018.1554630

Burlingame, K. (2014). ‘The Universal Museums Declaration: Cultural and Ethical Implications,’ in Vileikis, O. (ed.) The Right to [World] Heritage, Conference Proceedings. Cottbus, Germany, pp. 384-398. ISBN 978-3-00-047536-8

Burlingame, K. (2014). ‘Whispers of a Common Past: Mapping Intangible Heritage of the 1923 Greek and Turkish Population Exchange’, eDialogos, No. 4, pp. 8-21. Available at: http://www.diadrasis.org/publications/edialogos-04

Burlingame, K. (2011). Forces of Destruction: The Collapse of the Mediterranean Bronze Age [Published bachelor’s thesis]. Pennsylvania State University. Available at: https://honors.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/1942

Tags: Cultural heritage, Cultural landscapes, Tourism, Phenomenology, Landscape Geography, Storytelling, Creative Writing, qualitative research methodologies, Environmental Humanities, Environmental and Landscape Archaeology

Burlingame, Katherine (2024). Landscape geographies: Interdisciplinary landscape research and a new framework to apply landscape as method . Landscape Research. ISSN 0142-6397. doi: 10.1080/01426397.2024.2369682. Show summary
The landscape concept’s disciplinary ambiguity and its broad range of definitions have resulted in the term’s unruly reputation. More recent scholarship, however, suggests that the term’s interdisciplinary application challenges its contentious origins, creates new pathways for co-creation, and encourages more direct interventions in informing policy. I therefore suggest there is a growing realm of landscape geographies, exploring alternative ways of knowing and being in landscapes across broader spatial, temporal, and ontological scales. Given that it can be difficult to navigate the complicated matrix of landscape definitions, theories, and methodologies, I position landscape as a method and introduce a new model of landscape analysis that includes three overlapping approaches to investigate a landscape’s material, symbolic, and affective dimensions. I conclude that embracing a wider spectrum of landscape geographies will help to elevate a more diverse range of voices, inspiring interdisciplinary conversations that contend with landscape futures in a rapidly changing world.
Prince, Soléne & Burlingame, Katherine (2023). At Home in the Ancestral Landscape: Uncovering the Lifeworld of Roots Journeys. Etnofoor. ISSN 0921-5158. 35(2), p. 50–66.
Burlingame, Katherine (2022). High tech or high touch? Heritage encounters and the power of presence. International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS). ISSN 1352-7258. 28(11-12), p. 1228–1241. doi: 10.1080/13527258.2022.2138504. Full text in Research Archive
Burlingame, Katherine & Burlingame, Philip (2022). A heritagescape in the Appalachians: When a tornado came to Kinzua. In Pettenati, Giacomo (Eds.), Landscape as Heritage: International Critical Perspectives. Routledge. ISSN 9781032046235.
Burlingame, Katherine & Papmehl-Dufay, Ludvig (2022). Excavation to storytelling: Perspectives from archaeological heritagescapes in Sweden. Archaeological Review from Cambridge. ISSN 0261-4332. 37.1, p. 50–70. Full text in Research Archive

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Burlingame, Katherine; Petursdottir, Thora & Holmgaard, Sanne Bech (2024). Relics of climate change: Icy futures in a melting world.
Burlingame, Katherine (2023). Pathways of a CAMS scholar: My journey to a heritage career.
Burlingame, Katherine (2023). Who should care for the wilderness?: Co-wilded futures of natural heritagescapes .
Burlingame, Katherine (2023). Relics of Nature: An Archaeology of Natural Heritage in the High North.
Burlingame, Katherine (2023). Who should care for the wilderness?: Co-wilded futures of natural heritagescapes .
Burlingame, Katherine (2023). Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered: Co-wilding in natural heritage futures.
Burlingame, Katherine (2023). Language Learning and Internationalizataion.
Burlingame, Katherine (2022). Bewilderment: A more-than-human environmental ethic in heritage studies.
Burlingame, Katherine (2022). Relics of Nature Project.
Burlingame, Katherine (2022). Locale, Story, and Presence: Encountering Landscapes of the Past and Present.
Burlingame, Katherine (2022). The paths we tread: Climate change and shifting landscape encounters in northern Sweden’s natural heritagescapes.
Burlingame, Katherine (2022). A heritagescape in the Appalachians: When a tornado came to Kinzua.
Burlingame, Katherine (2022). The paths we tread -- shifting landscape encounters in Sweden's northern heritagescapes.
Burlingame, Katherine (2022). High Tech or High Touch -- Dead Landscapes and How to Make Them Live.
Burlingame, Katherine (2022). Heritage Ecologies. International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS). ISSN 1352-7258. doi: 10.1080/13527258.2022.2068642.

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Relics of Nature: An Archaeology of Natural Heritage in the High North