Thomas, Julia

Julia Thomas
Assistant Professor, Sociology
website | jtthomas@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality; Conflict; Crime and Corrections; Policy, Regulation, and Compliance; Violence and Injury

Assistant Professor, Sociology
website | jtthomas@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality; Conflict; Crime and Corrections; Policy, Regulation, and Compliance; Violence and Injury

Assistant Professor, Sociology
website | gillian.slee@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality; Conflict; Crime and Corrections; Policy, Regulation, and Compliance; Violence and Injury

Associate Professor, Social Work
website | Karen.Johnson1@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality; Crime and Corrections; Gender; Infectious Disease; Maltreatment and Trauma; Prevention and Implementation Science; Risk Behaviors; Sexuality and Sexual Identity

Marienthal Professor of Sociology
website | pridemore@uga.edu
Research Interests: Assessment and Evaluation, Crime and Corrections, Culture, Physical Health and Well-being, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Prevention and Implementation Science, Risk Behaviors, Substance Use and Addiction, Violence and Injury

Associate Dean of Faculty Development, Professor, School of Law
website | nsc@uga.edu
Research Interests: Conflict, Crime and Corrections, Higher Education, International Relations

Assistant Professor, History
website | tdjohnson@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Crime and Corrections, Culture, Diversity, Education and Learning, Gender, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood

Meigs Professor & Department Head, Sociology
Department Head, Sociology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | sshannon@uga.edu
Research Interests include criminal justice, punishment, monetary sanctions, and rural jails

Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, Economics
website | mustard@uga.edu
Research Interests include education, sentencing, gambling, and law

Professor, Geography
website | holloway@uga.edu
Research Interests include the geography of youth labor markets, the impact of public housing on the geographies of poverty and crime, and the geographically contingent nature of discrimination in mortgage lending

Associate Professor, Social Work
website | jelkins@uga.edu
Research Interests include sexual abuse and child maltreatment, interpersonal and multigenerational trauma, violence and loss, PTSD and trauma related disorders, ecological/transactional and risk/resilience processes across the lifespan, and culturally congruent research and practice