Associate Professor, Public Administration and Policy
Distinguished Scholar, 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
Distinguished Scholar, 2012 GDP Graduate, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | sjahn@uga.edu
Research Interests include Virtual reality, avatars, media psychology, persuasion
Associate Research Scientist, Social Work
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | lydia@uga.edu
Research Interests: Substance use; Treatment utilization and delivery; Cannabis legalization; Workforce and organizational issues; Inequality; Hard-to-Reach populations
Distinguished Research Professor, Language and Literacy Education
Distinguished Scholar, 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
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | tandrews@uga.edu
Research Interests include STEM Education, Culture change, Teacher Knowledge
Professor and Department Head, Educational Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, 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, Psychology
Co-Director, Center for Family Research
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | srhbeach@uga.edu
Research Interests include Family, Epigenetics, Inflammation, Obesity, Substance Abuse
Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | rlblount@uga.edu
Research Interests include Pediatric Psychology, Medical Adherence, Health Outcomes, Transition of Healthcare, Tourette Syndrome
Co-Director, Center for Family Research
Distinguished Scholar, 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
Distinguished Scholar, 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, Center for Family Research
Distinguished Scholar, 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
Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Science
Distinguished Scholar, 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, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | wkc@uga.edu
Research Interests include Narcissism, Personality, Culture, Assessment, Generational Change
Assistant Professor, Psychology I/O
Distinguished Scholar, 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
Distinguished Scholar, 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
Distinguished Scholar, 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, Social Work
Distinguished Scholar, 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
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | jclayw@uga.edu
Research Interests include Justice, Violence, Victimization, Experimental Methods, and Gender
Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | clementz@uga.edu
Research Interests include Psychosis, Classification, Neuroimaging, and Genetics
Assistant Professor, Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy
Distinguished Scholar, 2015 GDP Graduate, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | ecobran@uga.edu
Research Interests: Health services; Comparative effectiveness; Cancer screening, prevention and outcomes; Survivorship; Large data analysis
Professor and Department Head, Communication Studies
Distinguished Scholar, 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
Distinguished Scholar, 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
Distinguished Scholar, 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
Distinguished Scholar, 2016 GDP Graduate, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | kehrlich@uga.edu
Research Interests include stress, inflammation, resilience, social determinants of health
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, 2016 GDP Graduate, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | lfiorella@uga.edu
Research Interests: Instruction; Problem solving; STEM Education; Multimedia learning; Learning strategies
Professor, Psychology
Director, Center for Gambling Research
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | goodie@uga.edu
Research Interests include gambling, decision making, psychology, recognition and addictive behaviors
Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, 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
Distinguished Scholar, 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
Athletic Association Professor, Human Development and Family Science
Distinguished Scholar, 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
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
2015-17 GDP Participant
website | lavner@uga.edu
Research Interests includes Couples; Families; Prevention; Therapy; Longitudinal; LGBT
Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Distinguished Scholar, 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
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | denise.lewis@uga.edu
Research Interests includes immigrants, intergenerational relations, resilience, aging
Assistant Professor, Communication Studies
Distinguished Scholar, 2018 GDP Graduate, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | jiaying.liu@uga.edu
Research Interests include Health communication; social psychology; message effects; and computational social science methods
Athletic Assoc. Professor, Science Education
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website |jaluft@uga.edu
Research Interests include Early Career Secondary Science Teachers; Science Teacher Knowledge; Undergraduate Science Education
Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, 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
Distinguished Scholar, 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.
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, 2017 GDP Graduate, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | isha.metzger@uga.edu
Research Interests include Treatment modification; Cultural sensitivity; Mental health disparities; Adolescents
Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | jdmiller@uga.edu
Research Interests include personality assessment and disorders, and antisocial behavior
Associate Dean for Academic Programs, College of Education
Professor, Educational Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, 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, Spatial Ecology
Distinguished Scholar, 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
Distinguished Scholar, 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
Associate Research Scientist, Human Development and Family Science
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | cwalker1@uga.edu
Research Interests include military families; risk and resilience; couples; health
Professor, Health Promotion and Behavior
Distinguished Scholar, 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
Distinguished Scholar, 2014 GDP Graduate, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | oshria@uga.edu
Research Interests include Child Maltreatment, Resilience, Neuroscience, Risk Behaviors
Milliken-Reeve Professor & Department Head, Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | bgp@uga.edu
Research Interests include Translational Sciences, Sleep Apnea, Cardiovascular, Obesity
Professor, Sociology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | sodawn@uga.edu
Research Interests include social psychology, gender, culture and social networks
Emeritus Professor, Sociology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | proman@uga.edu
Research Interests include medical sociology; crime, law & deviance
Professor, Communication Studies
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | jasamp@uga.edu
Research Interests include close relationships, family communication, attributions, conflict and violence
Associate Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | ashaffer@uga.edu
Research Interests include Emotion communication & socialization; childhood maltreatment; predictors of parenting
Associate Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, 2017 GDP Graduate, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | kshock@uga.edu
Research Interests include Work-family conflict; Dual-earner couples; Occupational health psychology; Mentoring
Professor, Sociology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | lgsimons@uga.edu
Research Interests include family, life course, aging, crime and law
Distinguished Research Professor, Sociology
Distinguished Scholar, 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
Associate Professor, Cellular Biology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | stantonj@uga.edu
Research Interests include Metacognition, Students of color in STEM, Qualitative methods
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | gstrauss@uga.edu
Research Interests include Schizophrenia, Psychosis, Neuroscience, Emotion, Reward, EEG, Eye-tracking, and Social Cognition
Gary R. Sperduto Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | sweet@uga.edu
Research Interests include Neuropsychological Assessment, Neuroimaging, Addiction and Disorders of Aging (Cognitive)
Associate Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, 2013 GDP Graduate, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | mvd@uga.edu
Research Interests include Self-regulation; Health behavior change; Self-control; Motivation; Individual differences
Department Head, Management, Terry College of Business
Robert O. Arnold Professor of Business
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | rvandenb@uga.edu
Research Interests include workplace health, organizational commitment, structural equation modeling, and research methods and statistics
Professor, Human Development and Family Science
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | wickrama@uga.edu
Research Interests include life course, health outcomes, marriage and work