Research Spotlights

Research Spotlight: “Mobility, ICT, and Health: A Built Environment Investigation of Older Chinese Migrants’ Social Isolation and Loneliness” 

Published: | 12:39 pm | Posted in: Faculty/Staff, News, Research That Works, Students

Amber DeJohn, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Florida State University, recently published a research paper titled “Mobility, ICT, and health: a built environment investigation of older Chinese migrants’ social isolation and loneliness” in BMC Public Health on February 7, 2025. The study examines how the ability to move through one’s […]

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Research Spotlight: “Contemporary Political Participation and its Countervailing Effects on Civic Culture” 

Published: | 4:00 pm | Posted in: Faculty/Staff, News, Research That Works

Florida State University Associate Teaching Professor of Interdisciplinary Social Science Alexandra Cockerham, Ph.D., and FSU Panama City faculty member James Cockerham, Ph.D., co-edited and co-authored “Contemporary Political Participation and its Countervailing Effects on Civic Culture,” which was recently published by Vernon Press in 2026. 

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Research Spotlight: “Governance Reorganization and Resilience: The Case of Florida Higher Education Systems”

Published: | 2:52 pm | Posted in: Faculty/Staff, News, Research That Works

Tzu-An Chiang, a Ph.D. candidate with FSU’s Reubin O’D. Askew School of Public Administration and Policy recently collaborated with Daniel Fay, Ph.D., on a research article titled “Governance reorganization and resilience: the case of Florida higher education systems.” The study, published on October 4, 2025, in Public Management Review, examines whether decision-making authority should lie with universities or with state leaders.

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Research Spotlight: Ready for the Next Storm? An Analysis of Florida’s Hurricane Preparedness for its Residents with Disabilities

Published: | 10:37 am | Posted in: Alumni News, Faculty/Staff, News, Research That Works

Anne Barrett, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Mildred and Claude Pepper Eminent Scholar, co-authored “Ready for the next storm? An analysis of Florida’s hurricane preparedness for its residents with disabilities,” alongside fellow FSU researchers: sociology doctoral candidate Hope Mimbs, sociology doctoral student Brianna Soulie, and postdoctoral scholar Jessica Noblitt. The team also collaborated with independent researcher Cherish Michael. Their study was published in the Journal of Elder Policy (2024). The following summary was written by Kharisma Langston (M.S. Integrated Marketing and Management Communication ’26).

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Research Spotlight: The Protective Efforts of Psychological Resilience on Fall Risk

Published: | 9:55 am | Posted in: Faculty/Staff, News, Research That Works

Dawn Carr, Ph.D., was the lead author of a recently published article titled “The Protective Effects of Psychological Resilience on Fall Risk.” The study was a collaborative effort with Shekhar Chauhan, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow; Miles G. Taylor, Ph.D., director of the Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy and professor of sociology; Matthew Lohman, Ph.D., of the University of South Carolina; and Amanda Sonnega, Ph.D., of the University of Michigan.

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Research Spotlight: The Minimum Marriageable Age Policy Process in the United States: An Advocacy Coalition Framework Analysis

Published: | 11:03 am | Posted in: Faculty/Staff, Research That Works

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.”

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Research Spotlight: “Economic Geography and Air Pollution Regulation in the United States”

Published: | 12:18 pm | Posted in: Faculty/Staff, News, Research That Works

Florida State University’s Charles and Joan Haworth Professor of Economics Carl Kitchens, Ph.D., co-authored “Economic Geography and Air Pollution Regulation in the United States,” forthcoming in the Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics. The paper examines how the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) affect the economy and environment in different U.S. regions and considers alternate policy designs to see if benefits could be improved. 

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Research Spotlight: “The Costs of Voting and Voter Confidence” 

Published: | 2:38 pm | Posted in: Faculty/Staff, News, Research That Works

LeRoy Collins Eminent Scholar in Civic Education and Political Science and Director of the LeRoy Collins Institute Lonna Atkeson, Ph.D., co-authored “The Costs of Voting and Voter Confidence” with Florida State University alumnus Eli McKown-Dawson (B.S. Political Science ’24) and Rice University Professor of Political Science Robert M. Stein. Professor of Political Science Robert M. Stein.  

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Research Spotlight: “Political Influencers and Their Social Media Audiences during the 2021 Arizona Audit”

Published: | 4:05 pm | Posted in: Faculty/Staff, News, Research That Works, Students

Kyle Rose, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology, was the lead author of “Political Influencers and Their Social Media Audiences during the 2021 Arizona Audit,” published in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. This article was co-authored with Deana A. Rohlinger, Ph.D., professor of Sociology at FSU. The following summary was written by Jyana O’Donnell (B.A. English ‘26) and Rachel Lechwar (M.S. Communication Science and Disorders ’26).

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Research Spotlight – Resilience in Complex Disasters: Florida’s Hurricane Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Amid COVID-19 

Published: | 9:00 am | Posted in: Faculty/Staff, News, Research That Works

Florida State University Associate Professor of Public Administration Tian Tang, Ph.D., was the lead author of “Resilience in Complex Disasters: Florida’s Hurricane Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Amid COVID-19,” published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. The article examines emerging challenges and strategies governmental and nonprofit agencies implemented during the hurricane-pandemic compound disasters of the 2020 and 2021 hurricane seasons. 

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