Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality

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Acheme, Doris

Assistant Professor, Communication Studies
website | doris.acheme@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Intergroup and intercultural communication; Social identity negotiation; Language attitudes; Racial ideologies

Adise, Shana

Assistant Professor, Nutritional Sciences
website | shana.adise@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Assessment and Evaluation; Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality; Cognition; Education and Learning; Experimental Methods; Food & Nutrition; Genetics and Epigenetics; Geographic Information Systems; Infant and Child Development; Infant and Maternal Health; Mental Illness and Disorders; Neuroscience; Obesity; Physical Health and Well-being; Psychophysiology; STEM; Substance Use and Addiction

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Antonoudi, Efthymia (Effie)

Assistant Professor, Financial Planning, Housing and Consumer Economics
website | eanton@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Diversity, Education and Learning, Immigration, Marriage, Family, and Close Relationships, Mental Health, Substance Use and Addiction

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Azevedo, Renato Ferreira Leitao

Assistant Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Institute of Gerontology
website | renato.azevedo@uga.edu

Research Interests: Aging and Gerontology, Assessment and Evaluation, Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Chronic Disease, Cognition, Communication, Computational Methods, Education and Learning, Emotion, Exercise, Experimental Methods, Media, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Physical Health and Well-being, Risk Behaviors, Social Psychology, STEM, Survey Methods

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Bankert, Alexa

Associate Professor, Political Science
website | alexa.bankert@uga.edu

Research Interests: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Cognition, Conflict, Emotion, Experimental Methods, Identity, Social Psychology, Survey Methods

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Banks, Leon

Assistant Professor, Social Work
website | banks03@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Culture, Diversity, Mental Health, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood

Beach, Steven R.H.

Regents’ Professor, Psychology
Associate Director, Center for Community and Family Research
Co-Director, Center on Biological Embedding of Social Events & Relationships
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
2023 OIBR Service Legacy Award Recipient
website | srhbeach@uga.edu

Research Interests include preventive intervention, epigenetic processes, family health, and marriage

Bian, Jiahe (Jane)

Assistant Professor, College of Environment + Design
website | jbian@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Aging and Gerontology, Assessment and Evaluation, Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Chronic Disease, Environment and Ecosystems, Geographic Information Systems, Media, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Obesity, Physical Health and Well-being, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Social Psychology

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Burch, Elizabeth

Fuller E. Callaway Chair of Law, School of Law
website | eburch@uga.edu

Research Interests: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Diversity, Gender, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, Networks

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Bush, Bryana

Lecturer, Physiology & Pharmacology
website | b.bush@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Assessment and Evaluation, Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Cognition, Communication, Diversity, Education and Learning, Higher Education, STEM

Carter, Sierra

Associate Professor, Psychology
Director, Center for Community and Family Research
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | csierra@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Aging and Gerontology; Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality; Chronic Disease; Culture; Diversity; Geographic Information Systems; Identity; Infant and Child Development; Infant and Maternal Health; Maltreatment and Trauma; Marriage, Family, and Close Relationships; Neuroscience; Physical Health and Well-being; Psychophysiology; Violence and Injury

Caughy, Margaret

Georgia Athletic Association Professor, Family Health Disparities
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
2024 OIBR Service Legacy Award Recipient
website | margaret.caughy@uga.edu

Research Interests include academic achievement, self-regulation, and minoritized populations

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Chapman-Hilliard, Collette

Professor, Counseling and Human Development Services
website | collette.hilliard@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Culture, Diversity, Higher Education, Identity, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Survey Methods, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood

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Clay-Warner, Jody

Director, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
Meigs Professor, Sociology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | jclayw@uga.edu

Research Interests include justice, emotions, violence, and victimization

Dunnigan, Allison

Associate Professor, Social Work
website | allison.dunnigan@uga.edu

Research Interests include child welfare policy and services, foster care, and system responses to human trafficking

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Ehrlich, Katie

Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | kehrlich@uga.edu

Research Interests include social determinants of health, inflammation, stress, and resilience

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Fazlul, Ishtiaque

Assistant Professor, Health Policy & Management and International Affairs (Jointly)
website | ifazlul@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Health economics; Education economics

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Figard, Rache

Assistant Professor, Engineering Education Transformations Institute (EETI)
website | rachel.figard@uga.edu

Research Interests: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Diversity, Education and Learning, Gender, Higher Education, Identity, Media, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, STEM

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Fisher, Sycarah

Associate Professor, Educational Psychology
2020-22 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | sycarah.fisher@uga.edu

Research Interests include substance use, minorities, African Americans, school mental health, and implementation science

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Forrest, Jon

Assistant Professor, Linguistics
website | jrforrest@uga.edu

Research Interests: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Computational Methods, Culture, Ethnography, Networks, Work and Occupations

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Galvan, Thania

Assistant Professor, Psychology
website | thania.galvan@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Mental health disparities; Latinx youth & families; Latinx immigrants; Traumatic stress; Risk & Resilience pathways

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Gonlin, Vanessa

Assistant Professor, Sociology
website | vgonlin@uga.edu

Research Interests include African Americans, couples, and families

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Goodwin, Emma

Assistant Professor, Microbiology
website | emma.goodwin@uga.edu

Research Interests: Assessment and Evaluation, Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Diversity, Education and Learning, Higher Education, Identity, Mental Health, Social Psychology, STEM

Haight, Sarah

Assistant Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
website | sarah.haight@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Infant and Maternal Health, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders

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Harrison, Ashley

Professor, Educational Psychology
website | ashley.harrison@uga.edu

Research Interests include atypical emotional and social attention in childhood psychopathology, information-processing framework to examine the differential developmental trajectory of social attention among individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and identifying ways to more effectively treat attention impairments

Holloway, Steven

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

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Huang, Peng

Assistant Professor, Sociology
website |peng.huang@uga.edu

Research Interests: Aging and Gerontology, Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Computational Methods, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, Immigration, Infectious Disease, International Relations, Networks, Survey Methods

Im, Angie

Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics

website | angieyeon.im@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Cognition, Communication, Culture, Diversity, Education and Learning, Emotion, Identity, Organizations, Personality, Social Psychology, Work and Occupations

Johnson, Karen

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

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Jones, Lindsay

Associate Professor, Insurance, Legal Studies, and Real Estate (Terry)
website | lsainjones@uga.edu

Research Interests: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Mental Health, Physical Health and Well-being, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance

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Jung, Daniel

Assistant Professor, Health Policy & Management
2021-23 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | daniel.jung1@uga.edu

Research Interests include quality of care, long-term care/post-acute care, Medicare/Medicaid policy, unnecessary health care utilization, health disparities, and machine learning methods

Kogan, Steve

Athletic Association Professor, Human Development and Family Science
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
2021 OIBR Mentoring Legacy Award Recipient
website | smkogan@uga.edu

Research Interests include Black youth, adolescent development, mental health, and racial discrimination

Lavner, Justin

Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
2022 OIBR Rising Star Award Recipient
2015-17 GDP Participant
website | lavner@uga.edu

Research Interests include couples, families, prevention, health disparities and LGBTQ

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Lewis, Racheida

Assistant Professor, Engineering Education Transformations Institute (EETI)
website | yrslewis@uga.edu

Research Interests: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Diversity, Education and Learning, Higher Education, Identity, STEM

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Mu, Lan

Professor, Geography
website | mulan@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Computational Methods, Environment and Ecosystems, Food & Nutrition, Geographic Information Systems, Mental Health, Physical Health and Well-being, STEM

Normand, Linn

Associate Professor, SPIA/History
website | linn.normand@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Conflict, Diversity, Education and Learning, Higher Education, Identity, Immigration, Networks

O’Neal, Catherine

Associate Professor, Human Development & Family Science
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | cwalker1@uga.edu

Research Interests include life course, cumulative life experiences, health and well-being, adolescent life stage, vulnerable populations, military families; racial/ethnic minorities, and health outcomes

Okech, David

Georgia Athletics Association Endowed Professor, Social Work
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | dokech@uga.edu

Research Interests include poverty, families, socio-economic development, and human trafficking

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Olenick, Jeffrey

Assistant Professor, Psychology
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2024-2026
website | jo14489@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Computational Methods, Diversity, Education and Learning, Organizations, Work and Occupations

Rawal, Smita

Assistant Professor, Clinical & Administrative Pharmacy
website | sr54982@uga.edu

Research Interests: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Chronic Disease, Diversity, Geographic Information Systems, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Physical Health and Well-being, Risk Behaviors, Substance Use and Addiction, Survey Methods

Read, Glenna

Associate Professor, Advertising & Public Relations
2022-2024 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | glenna.read@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Video surveillance; Video interpretation bias; Media effects; Social representation; Message processing; Decision-making

Richards, Dylan

Assistant Professor, Psychology
website | dkrichards@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Assessment and Evaluation; Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality; Chronic Disease; Diversity; Emotion; Exercise; Experimental Methods; Food & Nutrition; Group Processes and Intergroup Relations; Identity; Mental Health; Mental Illness and Disorders; Obesity; Personality; Physical Health and Well-being; Prevention and Implementation Science; Risk Behaviors; Social Psychology; Substance Use and Addiction; Survey Methods

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Russo-Tait, Tatiane

Assistant Professor, Cellular Biology
website | Tati@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Critical consciousness; Equity; Social justice in STEM

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Sanders, Ashley

Associate Professor, Psychology
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2025-2027
website | ashley.sanders@uga.edu

Research Interests: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Cognition, Diversity, Environment and Ecosystems, Gender, Genetics and Epigenetics, Infant and Child Development, Infant and Maternal Health, Maltreatment and Trauma, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Neuroscience, Psychophysiology, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood

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Schuster, Mike

Associate Professor, Legal Studies
website | mike.schuster@uga.edu

Research Interests: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Cognition, Gender, STEM

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Shin, Eunhae

Assistant Professor, Health Policy & Management
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2025-2027
website | eunhae.shin@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Health economics, Health policy, Healthcare delivery, and Health services research

Skinner, Allison

Associate Professor, Psychology
website | allison.skinner@uga.edu

Research Interests include racism, prejudice, stereotyping, bias development, and bias intervention

Slee, Gillian

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

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Stauffer, Katelyn

Associate Professor, Political Science
website | kstauffer@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Diversity, Experimental Methods, Gender, Identity, Survey Methods

Sun, Ling

Assistant Professor, Linguistics, Institute of Artificial Intelligence
website | Ling.Sun@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Assessment and Evaluation, Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Cognition, Computational Methods, Culture, Diversity, Experimental Methods, Neuroscience, Prevention and Implementation Science