Department of Psychology

Education

• 2021–2024 Ph.D., Psychology of Peace and Violence Program, Social Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 2018-2021 M.S., Social Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 2011–2015 B.A., Psychology, B.A., Human Rights with concentration in Sociology, Columbia University

Teaching Interests 

• Social Psychology
• Methods (Qualitative and Participatory)
• Social Change and Collective Action
• Conflict and Conflict Resolution

Research Interests

Primary research areas include: Social Change Processes, Intergroup Conflict and Conflict Resolution, and Transformative Politics
For students interested in joining the collab (community-oriented learning lab), please contact Dr. Burrows directly at burrowsbe@appstate.du

Representative Publications

Tropp, L. R., Abellera, C., Schreiber, J., Uluğ, Ö. M., & Burrows, B. (in press). Expanding Intergroup Contact Research Beyond Prejudice Reduction: Implications for Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Support for Equality. In J. Jetton and V. Esses (Eds.), Sage Handbook of Psychological Perspectives on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Burrows, B., Daniels, J., Starks-Tanksley, U., Dimso, A., Downey, G. (2023). The Ecological Resilience Framework: The Justice Ambassadors Youth Council as a Model for Community-Based Resilience, Journal of Development and Psychopathology. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579423001001

Burrows, B., Tropp, L. R., Dehrone, T. A., & Čehajić-Clancy, S. (2022). How intergroup contact shapes intergroup attitudes and construals of relations between ethnic groups: Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 28(3), 372. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000629

Burrows, B., Uluğ, Ö. M., Khudoyan, K., & Leidner, B. (2022). Introducing the Collective Action Recursive Empowerment (CARE) Model: How Small‐Scale Protests Led to Large‐Scale Collective Action in Armenia's Velvet Revolution. Political Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12858

Burrows, B., Selvanathan, H. P., & Lickel, B. (2021). My Fight or Yours: How Stereotypes of Activists Differ by Disadvantaged and Advantaged Group Status. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672211060124

Conference Presentations 

Burrows., B., Blaylock, D., Morhayim, L., Tropp, & L. R. (2024, Sept) Promoting Social Cohesion and Trust through Youth-Based Peacebuilding Programs. Panel Dialogue. Status Quo No More: Building Peace in the Time of Rising Conflict. Alliance for Peacebuilding and the U.S. Institute of Peace, PeaceCon2024, Washington, D.C.
Burrows., B., Daniels, J., Starks-Tanksley, U., Downey, G. Feldman, G., Jeffreys, W., Bostic, J., Smith, T., Bowers, D., Arroyo, J., Hurdle, R., Bryant, D., Willis, D. (2024, June). Project Restore: Community-Based Intervention for Violence Disruption and Legal-System Change. Interactive Discussion: Frontiers of Justice: Using Psychological Science to Reinvigorate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.