Florida State University Political Science Professor and Director of the LeRoy Collins Institute, Lonna Atkeson, Ph.D., received a $10,000 grant from Public Agenda for its Democracy Renewal Project to contribute to trust-building electoral research.
Research Spotlight: “Racial Slurs by Police and Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms: Intrusive Policing and Perceived Injustice”
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).