College of Social Sciences and Public Policy
at Florida State University
FSU Student Star, Miguel Arceo-Miranda, is committed to making political education and information more accessible through research, fundraising, and volunteering.
Madelyn Luther is a dedicated pre-law student who is committed to finding the overlap between her passions for writing, climate justice and law.
More than 4.4 million adults in Florida are family caregivers who primarily provide unpaid and unsupported care to older parents, spouses and other relatives. As Florida’s population ages, with one in five residents expected to be 65 or older by 2030, caregivers and families continue to need access to essential resources and information for support more than […]
On October 10, 2025, the Department of Geography hosted a roundtable discussion with two scholars from Ukraine, Kostyantyn Mezentsev, Ph.D. and Sofia Doskich, Ph.D., who are visiting Florida State University as part of the Bridge USA Ukraine Program for Resilience and Reconstruction. Dr. Mezentsev, the Chair of the Department of Economic and Social Geography at […]
Florida State University’s College of Social Sciences and Public Policy had an expansive and productive 2024–2025 academic year.
Our 12 academic departments, 12 centers and institutes, and multiple interdisciplinary labs advanced scholarship, strengthened community engagement, and prepared students for leadership in a changing world.
Florida State University has launched the Spatial Data Science Center (SDSC) within its College of Social Sciences and Public Policy, establishing a new hub for interdisciplinary research aimed at solving complex societal problems using advanced spatial data analytics.
As housing costs continue to increase nationwide, Florida residents have become all too familiar with the growing housing shortage and affordability crisis that has been building over the past two decades in the Sunshine State.
A research project in Florida State University’s Department of Geography has been accepted into the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Pilot Start-up program. The project is focused on developing a predictive model to forecast fire frequency and severity in California. The NAIRR Pilot Start-up program connects researchers and educators to computational, data and training resources essential for advancing AI […]
Florida State University Assistant Professor of public administration Ene Ikpebe, Ph.D., authored “The minimum marriageable age policy process in the United States: An advocacy coalition framework analysis.”
“By identifying the subjects of debate, the paper helps us understand why the formal discussion of child marriage and minimum marriageable age policy in the US has had a relatively late start, compared to similar developed countries. The article also contributes to our understanding of advocacy coalition formation, i.e., the types of beliefs that allow policy actors to organize productively as they seek to influence policymaking,” said Dr. Ikpebe. “Finally, by applying the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) to a policy area to which the lens had not previously been applied, the paper deepens scholarly confidence in the usefulness of the theory.”
Join FSU’s College of Social Sciences and Public Policy (COSSPP) for a professional development workshop exploring career opportunities for Ph.D.s in government research settings on Tuesday, September 23, from 2–3:30 p.m. in the DeVoe L. Moore Conference Room (Bellamy 150E).
