FIU Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies

📣 Abstract submissions for the SAGGSA Conference ends on February 17 📣

Inspired by the global phenomenon of Bad Bunny, the Jornal da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) published a feature on the political history of reggaeton that includes the analysis of our professor Sheilla Rodríguez Madera. Her contribution explains how, long before Bad Bunny’s massive success, reggaeton emerged in Puerto Rico as a contested cultural movement, facing censorship and stigmatization before becoming a symbol of Latin American identity.

Bad Bunny comanda o sucesso do reggaeton latino-americano no Brasil - Jornal da Universidade Música | Cantor mais escutado da América Latina, artista quadruplicou a quantidade de ouvintes no Brasil em 2025 no Spotify e terá dois shows em fevereiro de 2026 em São Paulo

GSS is hiring! We are looking for someone to fill our Temporary Program Coordinator position. Visit hr.fiu.edu/careers to apply today!

Click below to read an opinion essay on Japan's public assistance approach to unsheltered homelessness, written by our very own Professor Matthew Marr 📲 💻

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

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 🇮🇹🛵🌺

Please join us for GSS-SAGGSA’s first colloquium and workshop of the semester! 🌟📚 We will be welcoming Dr. Josh Seim, Associate 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.

Event info:

SAGGSA Colloquium “The Welfare Assembly Line: Public Servants in the Suffering City”
Thursday, September 25, 2-4 PM
SIPA II 260 and by Zoom

Workshop “Doing Theoretical Ethnography”
Friday, September 26, 2-4 PM
MANGO 221

Hope to see you there!

Check out the latest about a study on physician migration by REACH - Research Network for Health and Society and its impacts on public policy in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

Médicos emigran por conflictos con aseguradoras, comprueba estudio Médicos encuestados citan "problemas con aseguradoras" como motivo para emigrar.

No classes this Monday. Enjoy your long weekend 💙

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)

Fall A and C begin today 🌼 have a great start to your semester!

Congratulations to recent GSS PhD grad Aarti Mehta-Kroll, who published an article about publicly engaged urban sociology. Swipe to read! ➡✨