GSS @ FIU
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We are the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies, located in SIPA300. Come on by or message us if you have any questions!
Click the link to read an opinion essay on Japan's public assistance approach to unsheltered homelessness, written by our very own Professor Matthew Marr💻 www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/addr...
Addressing Homelessness: U.S. Sweeps Versus Japan's Public Assistance | Think Global Health
Rather than sweep encampments and cut budgets, Japan found success with needs-based cash benefits and housing subsidies
www.thinkglobalhealth.org
October 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Click the link to read an opinion essay on Japan's public assistance approach to unsheltered homelessness, written by our very own Professor Matthew Marr💻 www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/addr...
Applications are now open to study abroad in Genoa, Italy this Spring semester! This is an opportunity you won’t want to miss. Go to abroad.fiu.edu to apply today🌺
October 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Applications are now open to study abroad in Genoa, Italy this Spring semester! This is an opportunity you won’t want to miss. Go to abroad.fiu.edu to apply today🌺
Join us for GSS-SAGGSA’s first colloquium and workshop of the semester! 🌟📚 We are welcoming Dr. Josh Seim, Professor of Sociology at Boston College, who will be leading the colloquium. Dr. Seim will also be co-presenting with GSS Professor Zachary Levenson in a workshop the following day.
September 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Join us for GSS-SAGGSA’s first colloquium and workshop of the semester! 🌟📚 We are welcoming Dr. Josh Seim, Professor of Sociology at Boston College, who will be leading the colloquium. Dr. Seim will also be co-presenting with GSS Professor Zachary Levenson in a workshop the following day.
Join us to watch and discuss the short film: “The Darkness: Lessons on Solar Energy, Community, and Power” 🎥✨
Date: Wednesday, Sept. 3rd, 2025
Time: 2:30 pm
Place: GC 140 Auditorium
This is SAGGSA’s first event of the semester co-sponsored by the Research Center for Health and Society (REACH)
Date: Wednesday, Sept. 3rd, 2025
Time: 2:30 pm
Place: GC 140 Auditorium
This is SAGGSA’s first event of the semester co-sponsored by the Research Center for Health and Society (REACH)
August 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Join us to watch and discuss the short film: “The Darkness: Lessons on Solar Energy, Community, and Power” 🎥✨
Date: Wednesday, Sept. 3rd, 2025
Time: 2:30 pm
Place: GC 140 Auditorium
This is SAGGSA’s first event of the semester co-sponsored by the Research Center for Health and Society (REACH)
Date: Wednesday, Sept. 3rd, 2025
Time: 2:30 pm
Place: GC 140 Auditorium
This is SAGGSA’s first event of the semester co-sponsored by the Research Center for Health and Society (REACH)
Congratulations to recent GSS PhD grad Aarti Mehta-Kroll, who published an article about publicly engaged urban sociology. Swipe to read! ➡✨
August 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Congratulations to recent GSS PhD grad Aarti Mehta-Kroll, who published an article about publicly engaged urban sociology. Swipe to read! ➡✨
Read the abstract of REACH's latest publication, titled "Disaster governance, energy insecurity, and public health in rural Puerto Rico: how communities resist political abandonment". 🌟
Featuring GSS faculty Sheilla Rodriguez-Madera, Mark Padilla, Nelson Varas-Díaz, Genevieve Reid and Kevin Grove.
Featuring GSS faculty Sheilla Rodriguez-Madera, Mark Padilla, Nelson Varas-Díaz, Genevieve Reid and Kevin Grove.
July 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Read the abstract of REACH's latest publication, titled "Disaster governance, energy insecurity, and public health in rural Puerto Rico: how communities resist political abandonment". 🌟
Featuring GSS faculty Sheilla Rodriguez-Madera, Mark Padilla, Nelson Varas-Díaz, Genevieve Reid and Kevin Grove.
Featuring GSS faculty Sheilla Rodriguez-Madera, Mark Padilla, Nelson Varas-Díaz, Genevieve Reid and Kevin Grove.
Critical Sociology has published a review forum on GSS Professor Zachary Levenson's 2022 book with his response💻
Swipe to read the four reviews along with Dr. Levenson's response ➡
Swipe to read the four reviews along with Dr. Levenson's response ➡
May 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Critical Sociology has published a review forum on GSS Professor Zachary Levenson's 2022 book with his response💻
Swipe to read the four reviews along with Dr. Levenson's response ➡
Swipe to read the four reviews along with Dr. Levenson's response ➡
Our End of Year Award Ceremony is taking place next week💫✨ hope to see you there!
April 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Our End of Year Award Ceremony is taking place next week💫✨ hope to see you there!
GSS Professor Zachary Levenson has published a new article titled "South Africa’s Radicals: The Anti-Apartheid Movement’s Forgotten Wing" in the Souls journal 📚
April 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
GSS Professor Zachary Levenson has published a new article titled "South Africa’s Radicals: The Anti-Apartheid Movement’s Forgotten Wing" in the Souls journal 📚
An amazing day at BBC Admitted Students Day! 🌟 GSS faculty and students proudly represented our program, connecting with future Panthers and sharing all that GSS has to offer. It was a huge success! 🐾💙 #GSS #FIU #FuturePanthers #BBCAdmittedStudents #StudentSuccess #PantherPride
April 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
An amazing day at BBC Admitted Students Day! 🌟 GSS faculty and students proudly represented our program, connecting with future Panthers and sharing all that GSS has to offer. It was a huge success! 🐾💙 #GSS #FIU #FuturePanthers #BBCAdmittedStudents #StudentSuccess #PantherPride
Great success at the internship event for undergrad students! 🎉 Over 20 students attended, including GSS students, to explore exciting internship opportunities, network, and socialize. A huge thanks to GSSA, the Anthro Club, and Sociology Club at FIU for organizing this incredible event! 🌟
April 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Great success at the internship event for undergrad students! 🎉 Over 20 students attended, including GSS students, to explore exciting internship opportunities, network, and socialize. A huge thanks to GSSA, the Anthro Club, and Sociology Club at FIU for organizing this incredible event! 🌟
Our final colloquium for Spring 2025 is on April 10! 🙌 It will be featuring Dr. Ventakesh, Dean of the Faculty of Education at McGill University and renowned social scientist.
March 31, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Our final colloquium for Spring 2025 is on April 10! 🙌 It will be featuring Dr. Ventakesh, Dean of the Faculty of Education at McGill University and renowned social scientist.
Our very own Faculty & Advisor Dr. Gonzalez representing GSS at the MDC Annual Career and Transfer Fair 🌍💫
March 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Our very own Faculty & Advisor Dr. Gonzalez representing GSS at the MDC Annual Career and Transfer Fair 🌍💫
The 14th Annual SAGGSA Conference is this Friday, March 14 from 8am-5:30pm. Dr. Arturo Escobar will also be giving his keynote speech virtually from 11:30am-1pm.
Don't miss the opportunity to listen to presentations from our graduate students and Dr. Escobar!
Don't miss the opportunity to listen to presentations from our graduate students and Dr. Escobar!
March 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The 14th Annual SAGGSA Conference is this Friday, March 14 from 8am-5:30pm. Dr. Arturo Escobar will also be giving his keynote speech virtually from 11:30am-1pm.
Don't miss the opportunity to listen to presentations from our graduate students and Dr. Escobar!
Don't miss the opportunity to listen to presentations from our graduate students and Dr. Escobar!
The 14th Annual SAGGSA Conference is next week! 🌟 It will be held in collaboration with undergraduate student organizations like GSSA and we will see presentations from undergraduate students. Dr. Arturo Escobar will also be returning to GSS after almost ten years to deliver the keynote speech.
March 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The 14th Annual SAGGSA Conference is next week! 🌟 It will be held in collaboration with undergraduate student organizations like GSSA and we will see presentations from undergraduate students. Dr. Arturo Escobar will also be returning to GSS after almost ten years to deliver the keynote speech.
GSS alumni Dr. Aarti Mehta-Kroll launched a website she created based on her community engaged research with the Little Bahamas neighborhood in Coconut Grove.
Congrats Dr. Aarti!
💻 littlebahamasmiami.com
Congrats Dr. Aarti!
💻 littlebahamasmiami.com
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February 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
GSS alumni Dr. Aarti Mehta-Kroll launched a website she created based on her community engaged research with the Little Bahamas neighborhood in Coconut Grove.
Congrats Dr. Aarti!
💻 littlebahamasmiami.com
Congrats Dr. Aarti!
💻 littlebahamasmiami.com
A recent paper on physician migration and spatial stigma was published in Global Public Health. This work includes contributions from five GSS faculty members: Nelson Varas-Díaz, Sheilla Rodríguez-Madera, Mark Padilla, Genevieve Reid, and Kevin Grove 👏
February 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
A recent paper on physician migration and spatial stigma was published in Global Public Health. This work includes contributions from five GSS faculty members: Nelson Varas-Díaz, Sheilla Rodríguez-Madera, Mark Padilla, Genevieve Reid, and Kevin Grove 👏
Happy spring break everyone!🌴
February 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Happy spring break everyone!🌴
A report from research by GSS professor Matthew Marr and Ph.D. student Melissa Hurtado (Rice University) has been released based on unsheltered homelessness and street outreach in Miami-Dade County.
February 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
A report from research by GSS professor Matthew Marr and Ph.D. student Melissa Hurtado (Rice University) has been released based on unsheltered homelessness and street outreach in Miami-Dade County.
Congratulations to GSS PhD student Ayşe Perihan Kırkıç who recently published two articles on migrants from the Middle East and North Africa📝
February 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Congratulations to GSS PhD student Ayşe Perihan Kırkıç who recently published two articles on migrants from the Middle East and North Africa📝
Don't miss our 14th Annual SAGGSA Conference on March 14!
February 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Don't miss our 14th Annual SAGGSA Conference on March 14!
GSS professor Rick Tardanico recently published two articles based on his long-term participatory research on dispossession and speculative mega-development in Miami’s Little Haiti community 🌴
February 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
GSS professor Rick Tardanico recently published two articles based on his long-term participatory research on dispossession and speculative mega-development in Miami’s Little Haiti community 🌴
GSS professor Kevin Grove has published a co-edited book, Political Geography in Practice (Filippo Menga, Caroline Nagel, Kevin Grove, and Kimberley Peters, eds.).
February 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
GSS professor Kevin Grove has published a co-edited book, Political Geography in Practice (Filippo Menga, Caroline Nagel, Kevin Grove, and Kimberley Peters, eds.).
GSS professor Zachary Levenson’s new article, “Communists and Black Liberation Movements: Divergent Trajectories in the United States and South Africa, 1939–1969,” has been published in Social Forces 💻
February 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
GSS professor Zachary Levenson’s new article, “Communists and Black Liberation Movements: Divergent Trajectories in the United States and South Africa, 1939–1969,” has been published in Social Forces 💻
Congratulations to Dr. Nelson Varas-Diaz, Dr. Sheilla Rodriguez Madera, and Dr. Mark Padilla for their film "The Bee: A Reflection on Women, Land, and Occupation" 🐝 which has won Best Short Documentary at the Festival de Cine y Derechos Humanos de Vieques.
View here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_V0...
View here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_V0...
February 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Nelson Varas-Diaz, Dr. Sheilla Rodriguez Madera, and Dr. Mark Padilla for their film "The Bee: A Reflection on Women, Land, and Occupation" 🐝 which has won Best Short Documentary at the Festival de Cine y Derechos Humanos de Vieques.
View here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_V0...
View here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_V0...