Barnard D. Burks

Starting from 1935 to 1942 he had an assistant entomologist position at the State Natural History Survey in Urbana, Illinois.

From 1942 to 1946 he worked for the United States Army in sanitary corps.

In 1946 he came back to the State Natural History Survey, which gave him a position as associate taxonomist, he resigned a few years later though due to the fact that he got a job as entomologist at the Division of Insect Identification a division of the United States Department of Agriculture.

From 1964 he kept a title of collaborative scientist and continued to study parasitic Hymenoptera, a job which he kept till his retirement 10 years later.

From 1954 to 1967 he had a position of associate editor of American Midland Naturalist, in which he reviewed his entomology papers for his own journal.