Nancy Burns

Director and Research Professor, Center for Political Studies
Warren E. Miller Professor, Department of Political Science

Burns studies gender, race, political participation, public opinion, and intergovernmental relations in the American context. Her most recent book, The Private Roots of Public Action: Gender, Equality, and Political Participation, won the Victoria Schuck Award from the American Political Science Association for the best book on gender and politics. Burns teaches courses on gender and race and politics, quantitative methods, research design, political participation, and urban politics. Burns is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.