Infant and Child Development
Abney, Drew
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
2023 OIBR Rising Star Award Recipient
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
Ahn, Daehwan
Assistant Professor, Financial Planning, Housing and Consumer Economics
website | daehwan@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Computational Methods, Education and Learning, Experimental Methods, Higher Education, Infant and Child Development, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Organizations, STEM, Work and Occupations
Bagwell-Adams, Grace
Associate Professor, Health Policy and Management
website | gbagwell@uga.edu
Research Interests: food assistance policy, obesity policy, effect of health policy on vulnerable populations, program evaluation
Bailey, Lynn
Professor, Nutritional Sciences
website | folate@uga.edu
Research Interests: Folate status and metabolism, maternal health, and fetal development
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
Brown, Geoffrey
Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Science
Distinguished Scholar, 2014 GDP Graduate, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | glbrown@uga.edu
Research Interests: fathering, socioemotional development, infancy, attachment, and African American families
Bub, Kristen
Professor, Educational Psychology
website | kristen.bub@uga.edu
Research Interests include social competence, self-regulation, executive function, early childhood, and research 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
Ehrlich, Katie
Associate Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | kehrlich@uga.edu
Research Interests include social determinants of health, inflammation, stress, and resilience
Frick, Janet
Associate Professor, Psychology
website | jfrick@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Developmental psychology; Infancy; Visual attention; Joint attention
Fusco, Rachel
Associate Professor, Social Work
website | rachel.fusco@uga.edu
Research Interests include substance use, child maltreatment, and domestic violence
Gibbs, Daniel
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
website | dangibbs@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Child well-being; Professional decision-making; Foster care; Data science; Social work and the law
Hamel, Erin
Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences & Special Education
website | erin.hamel@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Early childhood teaching; Workplace supports; Education quality
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
Knight, Jessica
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
2021-23 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | jessica.knight@uga.edu
Research Interests include child health, cardiovascular disease, chronic disease epidemiology, and birth defects
Koss, Kalsea
Assistant Professor, Human Development & Family Science
website | kalsea.koss@uga.edu
Research Interests include stress, adversity, puberty, developmental psychopathology, epigenetics, and resilience
Lavner, Justin
Associate 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
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
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
Oshri, Assaf
Associate Professor, Human Development & Family Science
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | oshri@uga.edu
Research Interests include early adversity and youth resilience
Ravindran, Niyantri
Assistant Professor, Human Development & Family Science
2023-2025 Grant Development Program Participant
website | niyantri.ravindran@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Parent-child interactions; Emotion socialization; Emotion regulation; Physiological responses to stress; Dynamic methods
Shaffer, Anne
Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | ashaffer@uga.edu
Research Interests include parenting, emotion regulation, measurement, and emotion socialization
Zhang, Liwei
Assistant Professor, Social Work
website | liwei.zhang@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Infant and Child Development, Maltreatment and Trauma, Mental Health, Violence and Injury