• Ph.D. History (Carleton)
• M.A. History (McMaster)
• B.A. History (Toronto)

Sara Burke's area of research is the history of women in higher education in Canada. Her current project explores the access of women to higher education in the nineteenth century, and the experience of women in coeducational universities before 1930.

• 2009 Marion Dewar Prize in Canadian Women's History, National Capital Committee on the Scholarship, Preservation and Dissemination of Women's History
• 2000 Canadian History of Education Association Founders' Prize, Best English Language Article on the History of Education in Canada
• 1995 Canadian Historical Association John Bullen Prize, Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis on a Historical Topic Submitted in a Canadian University

• Burke, Sara Z., and Patrice Milewski, eds. Schooling in Transition: Readings in Canadian History of Education. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012
• Burke, Sara Z. “Dancing into Education: The First World War and the Roots of Change in Women’s Higher Education.” In Cultures, Communities, and Conflict: Histories of Canadian Universities and War, edited by Paul Stortz and E. Lisa Panayotidis, 95-120. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012
• Burke, Sara Z. [Review Essay] “Equal Citizenship of the Mind: Recent Studies in the History of Women’s Education.” Historical Studies in Education/Revue d’histoire de l’éducation 23, no. 1 (2011): 81-6
• Burke, Sara Z. “The Berkeley of Sudbury: Student Radicalism at Laurentian University in the Sixties.” History of Intellectual Culture 8, no. 1 (2008/09)
• Burke, Sara Z. “Women of Newfangle: Co-Education, Racial Discourse, and Women's Rights in Victorian Ontario.” Historical Studies in Education/Revue d'histoire de l'éducation 19, no. 1 (2007): 111-33