Research

COSSPP Research Team Awarded Grant by Social Security Administration (SSA)

Published: | 1:11 pm | Posted in: Faculty/Staff, News, Research

A Florida State University College of Social Sciences and Public Policy (COSSPP) and Florida A&M University (FAMU) research team was awarded a grant from the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) for the project Race Disparities and Consequences of Cancer Diagnosis on Pre-Retirement Work Disruption.   This grant is funded by the Retirement and Disability Research Consortium […]

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Research Spotlight: “Racial Slurs by Police and Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms: Intrusive Policing and Perceived Injustice”

Published: | 9:56 am | Posted in: News, Research

Michael McFarland, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology at Florida State University, was the lead author of “Racial Slurs by Police and Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms: Intrusive Policing and Perceived Injustice” published in the Journal of Urban Health, alongside Kyleigh Moniz, a Ph.D. Sociology Student at FSU; Cheryl McFarland, Ph.D.; and Lauren Manley, M.S. The following summary was written by Anya Finley (B.S. Political Science and Philosophy ’25).

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Research Spotlight: “Militarized State-building Interventions and the Survival of Fragile States”

Published: | 9:03 pm | Posted in: News, Research

Kelly Matush, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Political Science, co-authored her thesis “Militarized State-building Interventions and the Survival of Fragile States” alongside David A. Lake, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego, which explores the variation in the stability of nations which experience militarized state-building interventions.

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Research Spotlight: “Understanding Changes in Spatial Accessibility to Restaurants During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Disentangling Closures, Inequity, Neighborhood, and Transportation Mode”

Published: | 12:00 pm | Posted in: Research

Researchers from FSU’s Department of Geography and the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering published “Understanding Changes in Spatial Accessibility to Restaurants During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Disentangling Closures, Inequity, Neighborhood, and Transportation Mode” in the journal Geographical Analysis, which examines how restaurant closures during the COVID-19 pandemic impacted communities. The following summary was written by Jyana O’Donnell (B.A. Editing, Writing, Media ‘26)

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Research Spotlight: “Race to the Top: How Competition for Political Power Affects Participation”

Published: | 12:10 pm | Posted in: Faculty/Staff, News, Research

Kai Ou, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Political Science at Florida State University, authored an article in The Journal of Politics titled “Race to the Top: How Competition for Political Power Affects Participation.” Below is a summary of the article written by undergraduate student Sarah Brophy (B.S. Political Science ’25).     Kai Ou, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of […]

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