What department are you a graduate student in? I am a PhD. candidate in sociology Why did you decide to go to graduate school? I made the decision to go to graduate school during my undergraduate career. I was led to graduate school because of the research opportunities. Did your interests change throughout your program?…
Category: Population studies
Research Quick Take
Here at the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy (COSSPP), our faculty have been quite busy! Here are some of the projects that our faculty have recently published. “Land Preservation Under the Transfer of Development Rights Program” by Dr. Kerry Fang In her recent article, Dr. Fang examines the success of transfer of development…
Award Spotlight: COSSPP Graduate Student Receives Adam Smith Fellowship
Political science Ph.D. candidate, Katelyn Hess, was recently awarded the Mercatus Center’s Adam Smith Fellowship. The Adam Smith Fellowship is a one-year program for doctoral students from any university and discipline who are interested in political economy. Her research interests include business-state relations, corruption, and the rule of law with a geographic focus on Russia…
Honors Thesis Spotlight: Conversations on the Top Steppe: The Impact of Tourism on Traditional Siberian Culture
Olkon Island, in the Southeastern Siberian region of Russia, is home to the Buryat people. Tourists now flock to Olkhon Island to witness Buryat culture and the practices of shamanism, the widely practiced religion on the island, but this was not always the case. While the Soviet Union was in power, their goals of “Russification”…
Honors Thesis Spotlight: Faith Matters: Towards a Group Theory of Evangelicals’ Role in American Politics
Contemporary Evangelical Christians are often associated with having a right-wing political ideology. This association is driven by the political phenomenon observed in American known as the “God Gap”. This “Gap” refers to a political difference between those who identify with religion and those who do not; specifically, those who align themselves with a religion are…
Research Quick Take
Here at the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy (COSSPP), our faculty have been quite busy! Here are some of the projects that our faculty have recently published. “Planning and LGBTQ Communities: The Need for Inclusive Queer Space” by Petra Doan In her recent book, Dr. Doan discusses safe neighborhoods for the LGBT community….
Research Award Spotlight: Sociology professor selected for research fellowship program
Associate Professor of Sociology Dawn Carr has been selected for a new pilot program instituted by the FSU Office of Research designed to facilitate interdisciplinary research and streamline the processes for conducting research at the university. Carr was selected for the Faculty Fellows Program on the basis of her proposal to develop a framework for…
Research Quick Take
Here at the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy (COSSPP), our faculty have been quite busy! Here are some of the projects that our faculty have recently published. “The Conditional Nature of Political Risk: How Home Institutions Influence the Location of Foreign Direct Investment” by Dr. Quintin Beazer and Daniel J. Blake In his…
Research Spotlight: District-Level Life Expectancy in Germany
Life expectancy at birth is one of the most important and direct measures of a population’s health and well-being. Inequality in life expectancy across societal groups is a key indicator of deeper social and economic inequalities. Information about differences in life expectancy across places is especially useful for policy makers who need to direct health…
Research Spotlight: Examining the Impact of Communicative Processes on Civic Engagement Among College Students During a Crisis
The objective of this ongoing study is to collect preliminary data on how message content and social norms impact college students’ responses to preventive behavior calls to actions (i.e., mask-wearing as an act of civic engagement) in regards to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and how these responses are exacerbated when such messages interact with individual…
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