Madeline Burdine

Madeline Burdine

Division

  • Research Staff

Title

  • Research Associate I

Contact

madeline.burdine@ssrc.msstate.edu

Madeline Burdine joined the SSRC in January 2024 as a research associate. Burdine received her bachelor’s degree in communication from Mississippi State University. She earned a master’s degree in integrated marketing communication (2022) as well as a master’s degree in sociology (2024) from the University of Mississippi. As a graduate student at the University of Mississippi, Burdine put her passion for the social sciences to work in a number of ways. She served for one year as a graduate assistant for the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies before being selected to serve as a graduate research assistant on a research project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Over the course of the project, Burdine was part of interviewing over 100 White southerners to explore how they feel about their place within the racial hierarchy today. Burdine’s thesis explored how heterosexuals who are considered supportive of the LGBTQ+ community navigate and maintain relationships with their LGBTQ+ friends and family within the conservative state of Mississippi. Burdine has also conducted interviews for the Queer Mississippi Oral History Project.

As a research associate at the Social Science Research Center, Burdine has worked on projects within the following labs: Mississippi Tobacco Data, the Gender Impacts Lab, and the Evaluation and Research Group. Her diverse skillset allows her work to range from data collection to graphic design expertise in the formulation of reports.  

Burdine is currently completing courses toward a Ph.D. in Sociology from Mississippi State University.