Education and Learning
Abraham, Anna
E. Paul Torrance Professor, Educational Psychology
website | anna.abraham@uga.edu
Research Interests include creativity, imagination, neuroscience, neuropsychology, and cognition
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
Andrews, Tessa
Meigs Distinguished Professor, Genetics
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | tandrews@uga.edu
Research Interests: undergraduate STEM education, teacher knowledge, systemic change, evidence-based teaching, instructional change
Ardoin, Scott
Professor, Educational Psychology
Associate Dean of Research & Graduate Education
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | spardoin@uga.edu
Research Interests include reading comprehension, eye tracking, behavior analysis, and classroom management
Barany, Deborah
Assistant Professor, Kinesiology
website | dbarany@uga.edu
Research Interests include motor control, decision-making, neuroimaging, and non-invasive brain stimulation
Barger, Michael
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology
2023-2025 Grant Development Program Participant
website | michael.barger@uga.edu
Research Interests include motivation, STEM, developmental psychology, mindsets, and beliefs
Cahnmann-Taylor, Melisa
Professor, Language and Literacy Education
website | cahnmann@uga.edu
Research Interests include TESOL, bilingual education, foreign language education, poetry, and theatre
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
Cooper, Alexandra
Post-doctoral Researcher, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
website | alexandra.cooper@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Instructor reasoning; Research teaching; Science practice instruction
Cotterell, Michael
Senior Lecturer, Computer Science
website | mepcott@uga.edu
Research Interests include computing education, active learning, open science, and functional data analysis
Cotwright, Caree
Associate Professor, Nutritional Sciences
website | cjcot@uga.edu
Research Interests include childhood obesity prevention, nutrition intervention, sugar sweetened beverages, and wellness best practices
Coverdill, James
Meigs Professor, Sociology
website | jimcov@uga.edu
Research Interests include sociology of work and organizations, work-hour reforms and surgical work
Dazzo, Giovanni
Assistant Professor, Lifelong Education, Administration & Policy
website | giovanni.dazzo@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Adolescents; Children and Youth; Culture; Education and Learning; LGBTQ; Methods Specialization
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
Dumas, Denis
Associate Professor, Educational Psychology
website | denis.dumas@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Creativity; Psychometrics; Reasoning; Test development; Learning
Ellison, Tisha Lewis
Associate Professor, Language and Literacy Education
website | tellison@uga.edu
Research Interests include family literacy, digital libraries, multimodal literacies and community literacies
Fazlul, Ishtiaque
Assistant Professor, Health Policy & Management and International Affairs (Jointly)
website | ifazlul@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Health economics; Education economics
Fields-Smith, Cheryl
Professor, Educational Theory and Practice
website | cfields@uga.edu
Research Interests include family involvement, sociocultural context of teaching and learning, multicultural education, homeschooling among African American families, and African American educational history
Fiorella, Logan
Associate Professor, Educational Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | lfiorella@uga.edu
Research Interests include Cognitive science, instructional design, learning strategies, and multimedia learning
Haas, Brian
Associate Professor, Psychology
website | bhaas@uga.edu
Research Interests include social and affective functioning in humans, decision making, and individual differences
Hamel, Erin
Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences & Special Education
website | erin.hamel@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Early childhood teaching; Workplace supports; Education quality
Han, Jeong-Yeob
Associate Professor, Advertising
website | jeonghan@uga.edu
Research Interests include eHealth communication, social media, online communities, cancer communication, and media effects
Han, Seung-hyun (Caleb)
Associate Professor, Lifelong Education, Administration, & Policy
website | calebhan@uga.edu
Research Interests include knowledge sharing, organization learning, quantitative research, social capital, and social network analysis
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
Kopcha, Theodore
Professor, Career & Information Studies
website | tjkopcha@uga.edu
Research Interests include embodied cognition, multimodal analysis, embodies interaction, and STEM education
Krimm, Hannah
Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences & Special Education
website | hannah.krimm@uga.edu
Research Interests include developmental language disorders, reading, writing, and dyslexia
Lai, Ming-Jun
Professor, Mathematics
website | mjlai@math.uga.edu
Research Interests include the theory and application of multivariate splines
Lemons, Paula
Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Associate Dean for Social and Behavioral Sciences
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | plemons@uga.edu
Research Interests include pedagogy, assessment, cognition, and organizational change
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
Luft, Julie
Distinguished Research Professor, Mathematics, Science & Social Studies Education
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | jaluft@uga.edu
Research Interests include teacher knowledge, teacher education, STEM education, science education, new teachers, and professional development
Ma, Ping
Distinguished Research Professor, Statistics
website | pingma@uga.edu
Research Interests include bioinformatics, imaging, dimension reduction, big data analytics, and high performance computing
Mustard, David
Professor, Economics
website | mustard@uga.edu
Research Interests include education, sentencing, gambling, and law
Neuharth-Pritchett, Stacey
Senior 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 young children, poverty, health, Head Start, and ACEs
Ovid, Dax
Assistant Professor, Physiology and Pharmacology
website | dax@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Curriculum studies; Higher education; Instructor talk; Study abroad
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
Rosenzweig, Emily
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology
2021-23 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | emily.rosenzweig@uga.edu
Research Interests include motivation, education, motivational interventions, STEM learning, and youth
Russo-Tait, Tatiane
Assistant Professor, Cellular Biology
website | Tati@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Critical consciousness; Equity; Social justice in STEM
Stanton, Julie
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
Stotz, Sarah
Instructor, Nutritional Sciences
website | sastotz@uga.edu
Research Interests include food insecurity, chronic disease management/prevention, nutrition education, and qualitative
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
Thapa, Janani
Associate Professor, Health Policy & Management
website | jrthapa@uga.edu
Research Interests include policy oriented research primarily field and community based research, program planning and evaluation, and application of behavioral economics in addressing childhood obesity and food behavior
Verma, Amitabh
Associate Professor, Environment + Design
website | averma@uga.edu
Research Interests include drawing, creativity, mental health, urban design, anxiety management, and architecture
Wang, Shiyu
Associate Professor, Educational Psychology
website | swang44@uga.edu
Research Interests include latent variable modeling, adaptive design, educational measurement, educational statistics, and psychometric
Warmath, Dee
Assistant Professor, Financial Planning, Housing, and Consumer Economics
website | warmath@uga.edu
Research Interests include consumer well-being, decision making, financial literacy, economic empowerment, and health literacy
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
Xu, Jing
Assistant Professor, Kinesiology
website | jing.xu@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Skill learning; Human dexterity; Cognition; Motor control; Neurorehabilitation
Young, Nicholas
Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy
website | nicholas.young@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Assessment and Evaluation, Education and Learning, Higher Education, STEM