Burrow's research focuses on topics related to youth purpose, identity processes, and race-related experiences encountered by ethnic minority adolescents and young adults. He has taught several courses including Racial and Ethnic Identity Development, Psychology of Race, and Multicultural Psychology during his time at the institution as well as the University of Notre Dame as a Multicultural Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Burrow received the Youth Purpose Research Award from the Stanford Center on Adolescence.