Associate Professor, Public Administration and Policy
Fellow, 2014 GDP Graduate, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | aabraham@uga.edu
Research Interests include Health Policy, Substance Use Disorder Treatment, Accessibility/Quality of SUD Treatment, Organizational Change, Maternal Health
Associate Professor, Advertising
Fellow, 2012 GDP Graduate, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | sjahn@uga.edu
Research Interests include Virtual reality, avatars, media psychology, persuasion
Distinguished Research Professor, Language and Literacy Education
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | dalverma@uga.edu
Research Interests include written communication, social media sites, youth media literacy, critical theory, and adolescent literacy
Associate Professor, Genetics
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | tandrews@uga.edu
Research Interests include STEM Education, Culture change, Teacher Knowledge
Professor and Department Head, Educational Psychology
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | spardoin@uga.edu
Research Interests include reading behaviors by students and application of principles of applied behavior analysis
Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Psychology
Co-Director, Center for Family Research
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | srhbeach@uga.edu
Research Interests include Family, Epigenetics, Inflammation, Obesity, Substance Abuse
Professor, Psychology
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | rlblount@uga.edu
Research Interests include Pediatric Psychology, Medical Adherence, Health Outcomes, Transition of Healthcare, Tuorette Syndrome
Co-Director, Center for Family Research
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | gbrody@uga.edu
Research Interests include processes linked with academic and psychological competence among children, parent-child relationships, sibling relationships and adolescent classroom experiences
Professor, Anthropology
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | pbrosius@uga.edu
Research Interests include environmental anthropology, cultural politics of conversation, political ecology, hunter-gatherers, transnational environmental movements and institutions and human ecology in SE Asia
Associate Director, Human Development and Family Science
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | anitab@uga.edu
Research Interests include gene-environment interaction and engagement/informed consent issues with regard to collection of genetic material from community samples
Assistant Professor, Human Development and Family Science
Fellow, 2014 GDP Graduate, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | glbrown@uga.edu
Research Interests include fatherhood, parenting, attachment, socio-emotional development, infancy, African American families
Professor, Human Development and Family Science
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | cmb84@uga.edu
Research Interests include marital relationships of newlywed African American couples, impact of distinct stressors expressed by African Americans and inter-relationship between health and marriage among African Americans
Professor Emerita, Psychology
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | kcalhoun@uga.edu
Research Interests include causes, consequences and prevention of sexual aggression, PTSD and risk revictimization and characteristics of sexually aggressive men
Professor, Psychology
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | wkc@uga.edu
Research Interests include Narcissism, Personality, Culture, Assessment, Generational Change
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Fellow, 2016 GDP Graduate, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | dcarter3@uga.edu
Research Interests include Organizational Systems, Teamwork, Leadership, Innovation, Team Performance, Employees/Businesses, Military, Healthcare, Space Exploration Systems and Social Network Analysis
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | ntcarter@uga.edu
Research Interests include Personality, Job Performance, Methodology, Factor Analysis, and Workplace
Georgia Athletic Association Professor, Human Development and Family Science
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | margaret.caughy@uga.edu
Research Interests include Academic Achievement; Ethnic Minorities; Social Inequalities; Parenting and Self-Regulation
Associate Professor, School of Social Work
Fellow, 2014 GDP Graduate, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | choiyj@uga.edu
Research Interests include Gender=based violence, Substance abuse, HIV, Health Disparity, Immigrants and Refugees
Associate Director, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
Meigs Professor, Sociology
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | jclayw@uga.edu
Research Interests include Justice, Violence, Victimization, Experimental Methods, and Gender
Professor, Psychology
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | clementz@uga.edu
Research Interests include Psychosis, Classification, Neuroimaging, and Genetics
Professor, Communication Studies
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | ccondit@uga.edu
Research Interests include health communications, risk communications, public emotion and genetic messages
Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | eldolan@uga.edu
Research Interests include studying science research as a context for teaching, learning and mentoring
Director, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
Professor, Psychology I/O
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | leby@uga.edu
Research Interests include Occupational Health, Workforce Development, Mentoring, Work/Family, Substance Abuse Treatment, and Implementation Science
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Fellow, 2016 GDP Graduate, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | kehrlich@uga.edu
Research Interests include stress, inflammation, resilience, social determinants of health
Professor, Psychology
Director, Center for Gambling Research
Director, Georgia Decision Lab
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | goodie@uga.edu
Research Interests include gambling, decision making, psychology, recognition and addictive behaviors
Professor, Psychology
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | pvholmes@uga.edu
Research Interests include psychopharmacology, neurobiological mechanisms responsible for stress resilience, brain noradrenergic systems and neurobiological basis of motivation and emotion
Associate Professor, Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy
Fellow, 2013 GDP Graduate, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | jayaward@uga.edu
Research Interests include health economics, health policy, substance use, tobacco, prescription drugs, large databases, Secondary data analysis, and econometric methodology
Director of Faculty Development, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
Professor, Human Development and Family Science
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | smkogan@uga.edu
Research Interests include family centered substance abuse prevention, alcohol and drug abuse, adolescent risk behavior, and African American men
Associate Professor, Psychology
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
2015-17 GDP Participant
website | lavner@uga.edu
Research Interests includes Couples; Families; Prevention; Therapy; Longitudinal; LGBT
Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | plemons@uga.edu
Research Interests includes learning, education, cognition, instruction, academic culture, attitudes towards teaching
Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Science
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | denise.lewis@uga.edu
Research Interests includes immigrants, intergenerational relations, resilience, aging
Professor, Psychology
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | jemcd@uga.edu
Research Interests include cognitive control, brain imaging and psychotic disorders
Adjunct Professor, Human Development and Family Science
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | mancini@uga.edu
Research Interests include family stress management, military mental health,the intersections of resilience and vulnerabilities within family and community contexts.
Professor, Psychology
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | jdmiller@uga.edu
Research Interests include personality assessment and disorders, and antisocial behavior
Associate Professor, Health Promotion and Behavior
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | jlm@uga.edu
Research Interests tobacco cessation in substance abuse treatment facilities, tobacco use in adolescents and young adults, tobacco disparities in African Americans, substance abuse, adolescent risky behaviors
Associate Dean for Academic Programs, College of Education
Professor, Educational Psychology
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | sneuhart@uga.edu
Research Interests include head start, pre-kindergarten, poverty, early childhood, teacher-child relationships, and asthma
Professor, GIS/Spatial Ecology
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | nate2@uga.edu
Research Interests include connectivity in landscapes and integration into GIS tools to manage ecosystems
Associate Professor, Social Work
Fellow, 2014 GDP Graduate, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | dokech@uga.edu
Research Interests include Human Trafficking, Evidence informed policies and programs, Asset development, Community development, Social welfare policy
Professor, Health Promotion and Behavior
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | porpinas@uga.edu
Research Interests include intimate partner violence, Latino, cervical cancer and Peru
Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Science
Fellow, 2014 GDP Graduate, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | oshria@uga.edu
Research Interests include Child Maltreatment, Resilience, Neuroscience, Risk Behaviors
Professor, Department of Sociology
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | sodawn@uga.edu
Research Interests include social psychology, gender, culture and social networks
Professor, Department of Sociology
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | proman@uga.edu
Research Interests include addiction, alcohol, opiates, behavior, disorder treatment, employed people and survey methods
Professor, Department of Communication Studies
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | jasamp@uga.edu
Research Interests include close relationships, family communication, attributions, conflict and violence
Associate Professor, Psychology
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | ashaffer@uga.edu
Research Interests include Emotion communication & socialization; childhood maltreatment; predictors of parenting
Professor, Department of Sociology
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | lgsimons@uga.edu
Research Interests include family, life course, aging, crime and law
Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Sociology
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | rsimons@uga.edu
Research Interests include social determinants of aging, social context and inflammation, social support and health, and health disparities
Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Science
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | Emilie.Smith@uga.edu
Research Interests include family and child self regulation, randomized trials (cluster), substance abuse, violence and delinquency
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | gstrauss@uga.edu
Research Interests include Schizophrenia, Psychosis, Neuroscience, Emotion, Reward, EEG, Eye-tracking, and Social Cognition
Professor, Department of Psychology
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | sweet@uga.edu
Research Interests include Neuropsychological Assesment, Neuroimaging, Addiction and Disorders of Aging (Cognitive)
Assistant Research Scientist, Human Development and Family Science
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | cwalker1@uga.edu
Research Interests include military families; risk and resilience; couples; health
Department Head, Terry College of Business
Robert O. Arnold Professor of Business
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | rvandenb@uga.edu
Research Interests include workplace health, organizational commitment, structural equation modeling, and research methods and statistics
Georgia Athletic Association Endowed Professor, Family and Consumer Sciences
Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | wickrama@uga.edu
Research Interests include life course, health outcomes, marriage and work