Diversity
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Gonlin, Vanessa
Assistant Professor, Sociology
website | vgonlin@uga.edu
Research Interests include African Americans, couples, and families
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
Haire, Susan
Department Head and Professor, Political Science
website | cmshaire@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Judicial behavior; Gender; Race; Ethnicity
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
Howe, Chad
Professor, Linguistics/Romance Languages/Latin American and Caribbean Studies
website | chowe@uga.edu
Research Interests: Communication, Computational Methods, Diversity, Immigration, Social Psychology
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
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
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
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
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
Russo-Tait, Tatiane
Assistant Professor, Cellular Biology
website | Tati@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Critical consciousness; Equity; Social justice in STEM
Sanders, Ashley
Assistant Professor, Psychology
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
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
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
Stauffer, Katelyn
Assistant Professor, Political Science
website | kstauffer@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Diversity, Experimental Methods, Gender, Identity, Survey Methods
Tate, Allan
Associate Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
website | allan.tate@uga.edu
Research Interests: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Chronic Disease, Computational Methods, Diversity, Environment and Ecosystems, Exercise, Food & Nutrition, Immigration, Infant and Child Development, Infant and Maternal Health, Maltreatment and Trauma, Mental Health, Physical Health and Well-being, Prevention and Implementation Science, Risk Behaviors, Survey Methods, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood
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
Tinkler, Justine
Professor, Sociology
website | jtinkler@uga.edu
Research Interests include gender and race policy intervention, sexual harassment, and discrimination
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
Villa Zapata, Lorenzo
Assistant Professor, Clinical & Administrative Pharmacy
website | lorenzo.villazapata@uga.edu
Research Interests: Chronic Disease, Diversity, Substance Use and Addiction
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