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WAR AND PEACE LAB
Bernhard Leidner, Ph.D.
Brooke Burrows
(page last updated: March 2020)
Address:
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Psychology of Peace and Violence Program
135 Hicks Way, Tobin Hall, Room 624
Amherst, MA 01003
Email:
Country of Birth:
United States
Citizenship:
American
Hello, I'm Brooke.
A fourth-year doctoral candidate specializing in social change processes including collective action, conflict resolution, and international justice mechanisms, Brooke was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. Her primary work examines how public recounting of suffering can lead to processes of meaning-making and empowerment, with downstream impact for conflict reconciliation outcomes, and she is currently working as a research consultant with Columbia University's Center for Justice.
In her roles as a graduate research and teaching assistant, Brooke has developed curriculum related to social identity as well as diversity and inclusion, collaborated with international and domestic NGO partners, and gained expertise in both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies. With previous experience as a Peace Corps Armenia Community Development Volunteer and an AmeriCorps Project Conserve Member in Western North Carolina, Brooke is invested in the application of research to better understand and address the needs of vulnerable communities facing an increasingly connected but also resource-stressed world.
Her other current research projects include investigating the role of perceived injustice and empowerment for activists of Armenia's Velvet Revolution, the development of a conceptual model of how exposure to intergroup conflict can result in support for conflict perpetuation, and outlining the role of stereotypes and privilege within activism.
Intergroup Conflict and Conflict Reconciliation
Mechanisms for Justice and Dialogue
Multicultural Psychology
Environmental Justice
Community Resilience
Social Change and Collective Action
RESEARCH INTERESTS
EDUCATION & WORK
2018-Ongoing
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Psychology of Peace and Violence Program,
PhD in Psychology, expected 2022
2015-2018
Peace Corps Armenia Community and Youth Development Volunteer, Yeghegnadzor, Armenia
AmeriCorps Education Associate, Brevard, NC
2011-2015
Columbia College, New York, NY, USA
B.A. Psychology, B.A. Human Rights
Senior Thesis: (Human Rights): Identity Politics and Displacement Sovereignty in a Tibetan Exile Community: Rethinking Refugee Space within Human Rights
2014
Emory University Tibetan Studies Program, Sarah College for Higher Tibetan Studies and Institute of Buddhist Dialectics, Dharamshala, India
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, & AWARDS
2021 Wendy Helmer Award
Awarded to graduate students who work to foster an environment of collaboration and support and improve the overall quality of life in the department and/or their program based on compelling nominations from graduate student peers.
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
2020 Graduate Research Fellowship ($138,000) Public Expression of Victim
Narratives: A Dual Process Model for Intergroup Reconciliation
The award recognizes outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics discipline. National Science Foundation (NSF)
2020 Prof. Rahamimoff Travel Grant for Young Scientists ($4,000)
The award sponsors collaborative research in Israel, with the proposed research examining how reconciliation processes may be impacted by public expressions of suffering.
US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF)
2019 -2020 Art, Culture, and Transforming Conflict International Exchange Seminar ($10,000)
Competitively selected to attend a fully-funded conference on leveraging the arts for social change, community reconciliation, and conflict transformation, grant awardee.
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State
2018 Edna M. Dahlquest Scholarship
Awarded to graduate students who have persevered in hardship
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
2018 College of Natural Sciences Graduate Fellowship ($10,864), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
2015 Myra Kraft Prize for Superior Academic Achievement in Human Rights Study ($2,500), Columbia University, New York City, NY
2015 Office of Multicultural Affairs Graduation Cord for commitment to inclusion, global diversity, social justice, and multiculturalism, Columbia University, New York City, NY
2013 Kenneth Cole Community Engagement Fellowship with the Fortune Society to research and address food insecurity among formerly incarcerated individuals, Columbia University, New York City, NY
PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
Burrows, B., Syropoulos, S., Leidner, B. (in prep). The Cycle of Conflict: Exposure to Intergroup Conflict Fuels Craving and Conflict Perpetuation.
Burrows, B., Uluğ, Ö. M., Khudoyan, K., Leidner, B. (in prep). Love and Solidarity in Armenia’s Velvet Revolution: Successful Protest Outcomes through a Collective Action Cycle.
Selvanathan, H. P., Uluğ, Ö. M., & Burrows, B. (in prep). Identifying different perspectives on the role of White people in the struggle for justice for Black people: A Q methodology approach.
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
Burrows, B., Syropoulos, S., & Leidner, B. (2020, February). The Repetitive Cycle of Conflict: Exposure to Intergroup Conflict Fuels Craving and Conflict Perpetuation. Data blitz to be presented at the Conflict and Conflict Resolution Preconference, SPSP Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA.
Burrows, B. (2020, December). Panel Presenter: Conflict Transformation through the Lens of Artistry. Alumni Thematic International Exchange Seminars, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Burrows, B. & Leidner, B. (2020, February). Peace or Punishment: The Role of Truth-telling in Conflict Reconciliation. Poster accepted for presentation at the SPSP Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA.
Burrows, B., Li, M., & Leidner, B. (2019, May). Justice Against Your Own: Low Glorification Holds Ingroup Perpetrators Accountable. Poster to be presented at the 31st Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington D.C.
TEACHING & WORK EXPERIENCE
Sep 2019-Dec 2019 Lead Teaching Assistant for Social Psychology
Psychological and Brain Sciences at UMass Amherst
Guest Lecture: Processes of the Self
April 2019 Workshop Participant for Human Rights Research and Documentation
Columbia University Institute for the Study of Human Rights
Jan 2017 Workshop Facilitator for Project Design and Management
Peace Corps Armenia
April 2016, 2017 Workshop Facilitator for MRE and Cross-Cultural Competencies
Peace Corps Armenia
Jan 2015-May 2015 Teaching Assistant for Advanced Seminar to Current Personality Theory
Department of Psychology at Columbia University
Sep 2013-Dec 2013 Teaching Assistant for Science of Psychology
Department of Psychology at Columbia University
Jan 2018-July 2018 AmeriCorps Education and Community Outreach Associate
Project Manager and Organizer for Riverfest, Environmental Resiliency Initiative with 50+ organizations and over 1,000 attendees
Transylvania County Cooperative Extension, NC
Aug 2015-Sep 2017 Peace Corps Armenia Community and Youth Development Volunteer
Project Manager for Border to Border
Project Assistant for Youth for Peace in the South Caucasus
USAID Small Grants Project Advisor
Monitoring and Evaluation Taskforce Member
Syunik-Development NGO, Yeghegnadzor, Armenia
Sep 2014-May 2015 Major Gifts Development Intern
Database Management and Donor Cultivation
Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), NYC
Summer 2012, 2014 Children’s Defense Fund Freedom School Classroom Instructor
Curriculum Development and Teaching for Underrepresented Students
Rise and Shine Freedom School, Brevard, NC
SERVICE & AFFILIATIONS
Oct 2018-present Secretary, Co-Coordinator for Retreat Series “Recruiting, Supporting
and Retaining Faculty and Students of Color,”
Committee Member, BRiDGE Program
Member of Graduate Diversity Committee and Faculty Diversity Committee for the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at University of Massachusetts Amherst
2018 – present Member of Association for Psychological Science
Division 2: Society for the Teaching of Psychology
Division 8: Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Division 48: Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict and Violence
Division 52: International Psychology
Member of International Society of Political Psychology
LANGUAGES
SKILLS
Statistics & Data Analysis:
SAS
SPSS
R (Basic)
Qualitative Content Analysis
NVivo (Basic)
Experiment Programming:
Qualtrics
SurveyMonkey
Office & Organization:
MS Office
English (First Language)
German, Armenian (Advanced)
Spanish
(Intermediate)
REFERENCES
Prof. Bernhard Leidner
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 135 Hicks Way, Room 639, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.
Phone: 1-(413)-545-0087
Email: BLeidner@psych.umass.edu
Prof. Brian Lickel
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 135 Hicks Way, Room 632, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.
Phone: 1-(413)-577-0493
Email: BLickel@psych.umass.edu
Prof. Linda Tropp
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 135 Hicks Way, Room 632, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.
Phone: 413) 577-0934
Email: tropp@psych.umass.edu
Prof. Özden Melis Uluğ
Department of Psychology, Clark University
Email: oulug@clarku.edu