Environment and Ecosystems

Brosius, Peter
Professor, Anthropology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | pbrosius@uga.edu
Research Interests include environmental anthropology, cultural politics of conversation, political ecology, hunter-gatherers, transnational environmental movements and institutions, and human ecology in SE Asia

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

German, Laura
Professor, Anthropology
Director, Center for Integrative Conservation Research
website | lgerman@uga.edu
Research Interests include land and environmental governance, property rights, and sub-Saharan Africa

Han, Jeong-Yeob
Associate Professor, Advertising
website | jeonghan@uga.edu
Research Interests include eHealth communication, social media, online communities, cancer communication, and media effects

Lapegna, Pablo
Associate Professor, Sociology
2023-2025 Grant Development Program Participant
website | plapegna@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Environmental and rural sociology; Social movements; Political sociology; Health

Matthew, Rebecca
Associate Professor, Social Work
website | rematthew@uga.edu
Research Interests include Community health and well-being ; Cooperatives and the solidarity economy; Community-based participatory research and practice; Environmental justice.

McNulty, Thomas
Associate Professor, Sociology
website | tmcnulty@uga.edu
Research Interests include race/ethnicity, communities & crime, and inequality

Mote, Thomas
Professor, Geography
website | tmote@uga.edu
Research Interests include remote sensing in climatology, synoptic climatology/meteorology, climate change, and cryosphere

Nelson, Don
Professor, Anthropology
website | dnelson@uga.edu
Research Interests include climate change, environmental governance, poverty, food security, vulnerability, and adaptation

Suveg, Cynthia
Professor, Psychology
website | csuveg@uga.edu
Research Interests include child, family, and developmental psychopathology

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

Weatherly, Christopher
Assistant Professor, Social Work
website | cweatherly@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Environment and Ecosystems, Ethnography, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders

Xie, Lusi
Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics
website | lusi.xie@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Behavioral economics; Agri-environmental policies; Ecosystem services

Yao, Xiaobai (Angela)
Professor, Geography
website | xyao@uga.edu
Research Interests include GIScience, urban growth and transportation, public health, data analysis and modeling, geocomputation, and qualitative GIS