Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
The University of Georgia
Assistant Professor, School of Computing
website | ari.schlesinger@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Communication, Computational Methods, Culture, Diversity, Education and Learning, Ethnography, Gender, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, Identity, Media, Organizations, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Sexuality and Sexual Identity, STEM, Work and Occupations
Professor, College of Environment and Design
website | kmelcher@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Aging and Gerontology, Cognition, Culture, Environment and Ecosystems, Ethnography, Gender, Geographic Information Systems, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, Identity, Mental Health, Obesity, Organizations, Physical Health and Well-being, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Prevention and Implementation Science, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood
Assistant Professor, Social Work
website | yzeng@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Assessment and Evaluation, Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Gender, Immigration, Mental Health, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood
Assistant Professor, Clinical & Administrative Pharmacy
website | niying.li@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Aging and Gerontology, Immigration, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Survey Methods
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
website | dangibbs@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Child well-being; Professional decision-making; Foster care; Data science; Social work and the law
Associate Professor, Sociology
2023-2025 Grant Development Program Participant
website | plapegna@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Environmental and rural sociology; Social movements; Political sociology; Health
Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics
website | lusi.xie@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Behavioral economics; Agri-environmental policies; Ecosystem services
Assistant Professor, Health Policy & Management and International Affairs (Jointly)
website | ifazlul@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Health economics; Education economics
Joshua W. Jones Professor, International Affairs
website | singh@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Elections; Democracy; Political attitudes; Electoral behavior; Electoral rules
Assistant Professor, Health Policy & Management
website | suhang.song@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Health disparities; Health policy; Health economics; Non-communicable diseases; Cognitive aging
