Marriage, Family, and Close Relationships
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
Arroyo, Analisa
Associate Professor, Communication Studies
2015-17 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | arroyo@uga.edu
Research Interests include intergenerational transmission of body image issues and its relation to mental and physical health outcomes (e.g. depression, eating disorders, overweight/obesity, exercise, dieting, etc.) among grandmother-mother-daughter triads
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
Beach, Steven R.H.
Co-Director, Center for Family Research
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
2023 OIBR Service Legacy Award Recipient
website | srhbeach@uga.edu
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
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
Clark, Malissa
Associate Professor, Psychology
website | clarkm@uga.edu
Research Interests include workaholism, employee well-being, work-family dynamics, and burnout
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
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
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
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
Foohey, Pamela
Professor, School of Law
website | pamela.foohey@uga.edu
Research Interests: Aging and Gerontology, Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Emotion, Gender, Marriage, Family, and Close Relationships, Mental Health, Networks, Organizations, Physical Health and Well-being, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Sexuality and Sexual Identity, Substance Use and Addiction, Survey Methods, Work and Occupations
Futris, Ted
Georgia Athletic Association Professor, Family & Consumer Sciences
website | tfutris@uga.edu
Research Interests include couples, relationships, outreach, evaluation, and community engagement
Gonlin, Vanessa
Assistant Professor, Sociology
website | vgonlin@uga.edu
Research Interests include African Americans, couples, and families
Kogan, Steve
Professor, Human Development and Family Science
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
2021 OIBR Mentoring Legacy Award Recipient
website | smkogan@uga.edu
Research Interests include Black youth, adolescent development, mental health, and racial discrimination
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
Lieberman-Betz, Rebecca
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
Liu, Liu
Assistant Research Scientist, Social Work
website | liuuil@uga.edu
Research Interests: Assessment and Evaluation, Computational Methods, Education and Learning, Experimental Methods, Marriage, Family, and Close Relationships, STEM, Survey Methods, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood
Murphy, Patricia
Instructor, School of Law
website | trish.murphy@uga.edu
Research Interests: Conflict, Emotion, Maltreatment and Trauma, Marriage, Family, and Close Relationships, Mental Health, Social Psychology
O’Neal, Catherine
Associate Research Scientist, Human Development & Family Science
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | cwalker1@uga.edu
Research Interests include life course, cumulative life experiences, health and well-being, adolescent life stage, vulnerable populations, military families; racial/ethnic minorities, and health outcomes
Serviansky, Daniel
Faculty Director of the Program in Alternative Dispute Resolution, School of Law
website | dserv@uga.edu
Research Interests: Communication, Conflict, Education and Learning, Emotion, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, Identity, Immigration, Marriage, Family, and Close Relationships, Mental Health, Neuroscience, Organizations, Personality, Social Psychology, Work and Occupations
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
Simons, Leslie Gordon
Meigs Professor, Sociology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | lgsimons@uga.edu
Research Interests include family, crime, and intimate partner violence
Slatcher, Richard
Gail M. Williamson Distinguished Professor, Psychology
website | richard.slatcher@uga.edu
Research Interests include social relationships, health and well-being, asthma, and psychoneuroimmunology
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
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
Winkelman Richardson, Evin
Assistant Research Scientist, Human Development and Family Science
website | evinr@uga.edu
Research Interests include: Communication, Conflict, Marriage, Family, and Close Relationships