Stacie Burke

• ANTH 1210 - Human Origins and Antiquity
• ANTH 2240 - Plagues and People
• ANTH 2680 - Evolution and Human Diversity
• ANTH 3470 - Demography of Past Populations
• ANTH 4860/7930 - Biomedical Anthropology or Anthropology of Infectious Disease or Human Adaptability

Stacie Burke is a biological anthropologist grounded in the biocultural approach to studies of human biology with interests in evolution, adaptability, epidemiology, and demography, and a current focus on culturally-constructed, niche-based stressors emerging out of the agricultural revolution, industrialization, colonization, urbanization, the synthetic chemical revolution, and capitalism.  She is interested in population-based case studies of health and disease, in addition to studies of the history and changing practice of biomedicine.

• CPA (Narrative Medicine), Columbia University, 2020
• SSHRC Post-doctoral fellowship (Anthropology), McMaster University, 2000-2002
• SSHRC Post-doctoral fellowship (Canadian Families Project), University of Victoria, 1999-2000
• PhD (Biological Anthropology), University of Toronto, 1999
• MSc (Biological Anthropology), University of Toronto, 1993
• BSc (Anthropology), University of Toronto Scarborough, 1992

Research interests

• Human biology
• Niche-based stressors and adaptation
• Biomedical anthropology
• Anthropological demography
• Infectious disease

• Burke, Stacie (2026) Why, Immunologically, Housing-Related Fungi and Endotoxins (and Other Chronic Pro-Inflammatory Stressors) Risk Latent Tuberculosis Reactivation, Severe Asthma, and Translocating and Invasive Infections in Indigenous Communities in Canada. American Journal of Human Biology 38(4): e70258. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.70258
• Burke, Stacie (2025) Immunity switches and macrophage manipulations: trauma, ovulation, and depression as latent tuberculosis reactivation risks. American Journal of Human Biology, e70146, https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.70146
• Burke, Stacie (2024) Hypoxia, NSAIDs, and autism: A biocultural analysis of stressors in gametogenesis. American Journal of Human Biology, e24042, https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.24042
• Burke, Stacie, and Thomas Duffy (2022) Famine, Tea, and Bread in Ireland: C282Y and Modern Human Microevolution. Yearbook of Biological Anthropology 178 (S74): 211-229.
• Burke, Stacie (2018) Building Resistance: Children, Tuberculosis, and the Toronto Sanatorium. Montreal-Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
• Ludlow, Natalie, Stacie Burke (2012) Deadly Occupations: Assessing Tuberculosis and Accidental Mortality Among Male Workers in Sydney and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, 1909-1917. Canadian Studies in Population 39(3-4): 49-66.
• Burke, Stacie (2011) Tuberculosis: Past and Present. Reviews in Anthropology 40(1): 27-52.
• Theodore, David, Stacie D.A. Burke, and Annmarie Adams (2009) Tower of Power: The Drummond Medical Building and the Interwar Centralization of Medical Practice. Scientia Canadensis 32(1): 51-68.
• Sawchuk, Lawrence A. and Stacie D.A. Burke (2008) The Barefooted Foreigner: A Case Study of the Scapegoat in 19th Century Gibraltar. Current Anthropology 49(3): 511-518.
• Adams, Annmarie and Stacie D.A. Burke (2008) A Doctor in the House: The Architecture of Home-offices for Physicians in Toronto. Medical History 52(2): 163-194.
• Burke, Stacie D.A. and Lawrence A. Sawchuk (2007) Reproductive Choices in Gibraltar: A Case Study of a Community In Transition, 1960 - 1996. Canadian Studies in Population 34(2): 149-178.
• Adams, Annmarie and Stacie D.A. Burke (2006) “Not a Shack in the Woods”: Architecture for Tuberculosis in Muskoka and Toronto. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 23(2): 429-455.
• Burke, Stacie D.A. and Lawrence A. Sawchuk (2003) Tuberculosis Mortality and Recent Childbirth: A Retrospective Case-Control Study of Gibraltarian Women, 1874 - 1884. Social Science and Medicine 56(3): 477-490.

• 2020 - "Building Resistance: Children, Tuberculosis, and the Toronto Sanatorium,” J.J. Talman Award, Ontario Historical Society
• 2019 - "Building Resistance: Children, Tuberculosis, and the Toronto Sanatorium,” long listed, Toronto Book Awards
• 2007 - Outstanding Achievement Award, Faculty of Arts, University of Manitoba