East Lansing, MI 48825-1205
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania; Sociology
Professor
Professor Burns’ research interests include reproductive politics, the politics of religion, moral conflict, and social movements. He also teaches social policy and social theory. He was awarded a fellowship to the Annenberg Scholars Program in 1995-96 and is the author of The Frontiers of Catholicism: The Politics of Ideology in a Liberal World and of The Moral Veto: Framing Contraception, Abortion, and Cultural Pluralism in the United States. In 2004 he was a recipient of the Mid-Michigan Alumni Association Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
Professor Gene Burns presented a paper titled, "Remembering that Politics Shapes Religion: Contesting the Religion-State Boundary in the Contemporary U.S.," at a joint session of the American Sociological Association and the Association for the Sociology of Religion in New York, in August 2007
Gene Burns received the 2006 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association's Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movement for his book, The Moral Veto: Framing Contraception, Abortion, and Cultural Pluralism in the United States [Cambridge University Press, 2005].
Professor Burns presented a paper entitled "Voice, Exit, and Moving to the Margin: How Sex Trumps Catholic Doctrine," at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society (Washington DC, March 2005).
Gene Burns published his book in April entitled, The Moral Veto: Framing Contraception, Abortion, and Cultural Pluralism in the United States (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
