Communications
Abney, Drew
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
2020-22 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | drew.abney@uga.edu
Research Interests include sensorimotor development, human interaction, emotion regulation, time series analysis, and language development
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
Ager, Mary
Associate Professor, Social Work
website | ager@uga.edu
Research Interests: Poverty, social policy, consumer debt, and social media
Ahn, Sun Joo (Grace)
Professor, Advertising
website | sjahn@uga.edu
Research Interests include Interactive digital media; communications; social interactions; virtual experiences; STEM
Anastasopoulos, Jason
Assistant Professor, Political Science and Public Administration and Policy
website | ljanastas@uga.edu
Research Interests: American politics, bureaucracy, Bayesian statistics, machine learning, and casual inference
Arroyo, Analisa
Associate Professor, Communication Studies
2015-17 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | arroyo@uga.edu
Research Interests include intergenerational transmission of body image issues and its relation to mental and physical health outcomes (e.g. depression, eating disorders, overweight/obesity, exercise, dieting, etc.) among grandmother-mother-daughter triads
Baker III, Thomas
Professor, Kinesiology
2013-15 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | tab3@uga.edu
Research Interests: how commercial laws influence sport marking, and on risk management in two specialized areas: (a) preventing sexual abuse in youth sports and (b) terrorism management at sports facilities
Bauer, Brian
Assistant Professor, Psychology
2022-2024 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | brian.bauer@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Suicide; Behavioral economics; Decisions
Cacciatore, Michael
Associate Professor and Assistant Department Head, Advertising & Public Relations
website | mcacciat@uga.edu
Research Interests include science communication, risk communication, and framing
Cagliani, Rachel
Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences & Special Education
website | rcagliani@uga.edu
Research Interests include autism spectrum disorder, communication, and behavior analysis
Cahnmann-Taylor, Melisa
Professor, Language and Literacy Education
website | cahnmann@uga.edu
Research Interests include TESOL, bilingual education, foreign language education, poetry, and theatre
Cooper, Alexandra
Post-doctoral Researcher, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
website | alexandra.cooper@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Instructor reasoning; Research teaching; Science practice instruction
Dolan, Erin
Georgia Athletic Association Professor of Innovative Science Education, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | eldolan@uga.edu
Research Interests include research training, mentorship, and career development
Evans, Nate
Associate Professor, Advertising
website | nevens4@uga.edu
Research Interests include health communication, vaccine hesitancy, and consumers interaction with/and processing messaging
Halmo, Stephanie
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Cellular Biology
website | shalmo27@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Student thinking; Metacognition; Problem solving; Group work
Han, Jeong-Yeob
Associate Professor, Advertising
website | jeonghan@uga.edu
Research Interests include eHealth communication, social media, online communities, cancer communication, and media effects
Himelboim, Itai
Associate Professor, Advertising & Public Relations
Thomas C. Dowden Professor, Media Analytics
website | itai@uga.edu
Research Interests include social networks, social network analysis, political communication, and health communication
Jaskyte Bahr, Kristina
Professor, Social Work
website | kjaskyte@uga.edu
Research Interests include innovation, design thinking, creativity, and teams
Jin, Yan
Professor and Assistant Department Head, Public Relations
website | yanjin@uga.edu
Research Interests include crisis, risk, conflict, misinformation, emotion, and social media
Krimm, Hannah
Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences & Special Education
website | hannah.krimm@uga.edu
Research Interests include developmental language disorders, reading, writing, and dyslexia
Lieberman-Betz, Rebecca
Associate Professor, Communication Sciences & Special Education
website | rglb@uga.edu
Research Interests include special needs, parent responsibility, communication development, autism spectrum disorder, developmental disabilities, early childhood, and special education
McFarlane, Soroya
Assistant Professor, Communication Studies
2021-23 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | soroyamcfarlane@uga.edu
Research Interests include health communication, health disparities, community-engaged research, and culture
Nowak, Glen
Professor, Advertising Public Relations
Co-director, Grady College Center for Health & Risk Communications
website | gnowak@uga.edu
Research Interests include health communication, infectious and vaccine preventable disease communication
Ovid, Dax
Assistant Professor, Physiology and Pharmacology
website | dax@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Curriculum studies; Higher education; Instructor talk; Study abroad
Phua, Joe
Associate Professor, Advertising
website | joephua@uga.edu
Research Interests include communication technologies, social media, public health, obesity, and smoking
Pjesivac, Ivanka
Associate Professor, Journalism
website | ivanka@uga.edu
Research Interests include media effects, international and cross cultural communication, and virtual reality journalism
Quinn, Shannon
Associate Professor, Computer Science
website | spq@uga.edu
Research Interests include developing large-scale algorithms and machine learning toolboxes to improve public health, and research specialization in biomedical imaging and biosurveillance
Ratcliff, Chelsea
Assistant Professor, Communication Studies
2021-23 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | chelsea.ratcliff@uga.edu
Research Interests include health communication, science communication, message design, precision medicine, and research recruitment
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
Sheagley, Geoffrey
Associate Professor, Political Science
website | geoff.sheagley@uga.edu
Research Interests include political psychology, political polarization, decision-making, and political knowledge
Terui, Sachiko
Assistant Professor, Communication Studies
2022-2024 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | sterui@uga.edu
Research Interests include HIV, health literacy, health disparities, intervention, and community
Verma, Amitabh
Associate Professor, Environment + Design
website | averma@uga.edu
Research Interests include drawing, creativity, mental health, urban design, anxiety management, and architecture
Wojdynski, Bart
Associate Professor, Journalism
website | bartw@uga.edu
Research Interests include design, visual attention, news, advertising, and effects of images on persuasion
Wright, Theresa
Sr. Public Service Associate, Carl Vinson Institute of Government
website | tawright@uga.edu
Research Interests include program evaluation, QUAL data collection, performance measurement, and survey research
Young, Henry
Professor and Department Head, Clinical & Administrative Pharmacy
website | hnyoung@uga.edu
Research Interests include health services research, medication use, health communication, minority, and underserved populations