Diversity
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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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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
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Boyd, Christina
Professor, Political Science
website | clboyd@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Judicial behavior; Gender and racial diversity; Political institutions
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
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Calabria, Jon
Professor, Landscape Architecture
website | jcalabr@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Assessment and Evaluation, Culture, Diversity, Education and Learning, Environment and Ecosystems, Geographic Information Systems, Survey Methods
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Caughy, Margaret
Georgia Athletic Association Professor, Family Health Disparities
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | margaret.caughy@uga.edu
Research Interests include academic achievement, self-regulation, and minoritized populations
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Chapman-Hilliard, Collette
Associate 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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Eby, Lillian
Distinguished Research Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | leby@uga.edu
Research Interests include occupational health, relationship science, mentoring, and mindfulness
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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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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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Geier, Charles
Professor, Human Development and Family Science
website | Charles.Geier@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Cognition, Computational Methods, Diversity, Emotion, Experimental Methods, Food & Nutrition, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Networks, Neuroscience, Obesity, Physical Health and Well-being, Psychophysiology, Risk Behaviors, Substance Use and Addiction, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood
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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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Haire, Susan
Department Head and Professor, Political Science
website | cmshaire@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Judicial behavior; Gender; Race; Ethnicity
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Harrison, Ashley
Associate 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
Johnson, Tracey
Assistant Professor, History
website | tdjohnson@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Crime and Corrections, Culture, Diversity, Education and Learning, Gender, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood
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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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Olenick, Jeffrey
Assistant Professor, Psychology
website | jo14489@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Computational Methods, Diversity, Education and Learning, Organizations, Work and Occupations
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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
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Robertson, Melissa
Assistant Professor, Psychology
website | mrobertson@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Social relationships; Mentoring and supervision; Diversity and inclusion; Health and well-being; Measurement and methodology
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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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Schlesinger, Ari
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
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Stanton, Julie
Meigs Associate Professor, Cellular Biology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | stantonj@uga.edu
Research Interests include metacognition, students of color, and participatory action research
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Stauffer, Katelyn
Assistant Professor, Political Science
website | kstauffer@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Diversity, Experimental Methods, Gender, Identity, Survey Methods
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Thompson, Jennifer Jo
Associate Research Scientist, Crop & Soil Sciences
website | jjthomp@uga.edu
Research Interests include food systems, social justice, policy outcomes, risk perception, and sustainable food
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Tinkler, Justine
Professor, Sociology
website | jtinkler@uga.edu
Research Interests include gender and race policy intervention, sexual harassment, and discrimination
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Tuma, Trevor
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
website | trevor.tuma@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Assessment and Evaluation, Diversity, Education and Learning, Marriage, Family, and Close Relationships, Mental Health, STEM
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Watkins, Kimberly
Assistant Professor, Financial Planning, Housing, and Consumer Economics
website | kimberly.watkins@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Culture, Diversity, Education and Learning, Emotion, Gender, Identity, Marriage, Family, and Close Relationships, Mental Health, Personality, Physical Health and Well-being, Sexuality and Sexual Identity, Social Psychology, Survey Methods