Mental Illness and Disorders

Abraham, Anna

E. Paul Torrance Professor, Educational Psychology
2014-2015 Grant Development Program Participant
website | anna.abraham@uga.edu

Research Interests include creativity, imagination, neuroscience, neuropsychology, and cognition

Adise, Shana

Assistant Professor, Nutritional Sciences
website | shana.adise@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Assessment and Evaluation; Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality; Cognition; Education and Learning; Experimental Methods; Food & Nutrition; Genetics and Epigenetics; Geographic Information Systems; Infant and Child Development; Infant and Maternal Health; Mental Illness and Disorders; Neuroscience; Obesity; Physical Health and Well-being; Psychophysiology; STEM; Substance Use and Addiction

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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

Arroyo, Analisa

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

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Azevedo, Renato Ferreira Leitao

Assistant Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Institute of Gerontology
website | renato.azevedo@uga.edu

Research Interests: Aging and Gerontology, Assessment and Evaluation, Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Chronic Disease, Cognition, Communication, Computational Methods, Education and Learning, Emotion, Exercise, Experimental Methods, Media, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Physical Health and Well-being, Risk Behaviors, Social Psychology, STEM, Survey Methods

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Bauer, Brian

Assistant Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
2022-2024 GDP Participant, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | brian.bauer@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Suicide; Behavioral economics; Decision

Bian, Jiahe (Jane)

Assistant Professor, College of Environment + Design
website | jbian@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Aging and Gerontology, Assessment and Evaluation, Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Chronic Disease, Environment and Ecosystems, Geographic Information Systems, Media, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Obesity, Physical Health and Well-being, Policy, Regulation, and Compliance, Social Psychology

Bork-Young, Sarah

Assistant Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
website | sjbork@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Culture, Diversity, Emotion, Experimental Methods, Higher Education, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Physical Health and Well-being, Social Psychology, STEM, Survey Methods

Cagliani, Rachel

Associate Professor, Communication Sciences & Special Education
website | rcagliani@uga.edu

Research Interests include autism spectrum disorder, communication, and behavior analysis

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Chapman-Hilliard, Collette

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

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Clay-Warner, Jody

Director, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
Meigs Professor, Sociology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | jclayw@uga.edu

Research Interests include justice, emotions, violence, and victimization

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Figard, Rache

Assistant Professor, Engineering Education Transformations Institute (EETI)
website | rachel.figard@uga.edu

Research Interests: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Diversity, Education and Learning, Gender, Higher Education, Identity, Media, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, STEM

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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

Flannery, Jessica

Assistant Professor, Psychology
website | jessica.flannery@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Cognition, Computational Methods, Emotion, Experimental Methods, Media, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Neuroscience, Physical Health and Well-being, Psychophysiology, Risk Behaviors, Substance Use and Addiction, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood

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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

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Geier, Charles

Associate Dean for Research & William P. Flatt 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

Haight, Sarah

Assistant Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
website | sarah.haight@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Infant and Maternal Health, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders

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Harrison, Ashley

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

Herzberg, Max

Assistant Professor, Psychology
website | mherzberg@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Infant and Child Development, Maltreatment and Trauma, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Networks, Neuroscience, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood

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Huang, Chao

Assistant Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
website | chaohuang@uga.edu

Research Interests: Aging and Gerontology, Cognition, Computational Methods, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Neuroscience

Liu, Rongjie

Associate Professor, Statistics
website | rjliu@uga.edu

Research Interests: Cognition, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Neuroscience

McDowell, Jennifer

Associate Director, OIBR
Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute of Behavioral Research
website | jemcd@uga.edu

Research Interests include cognition, psychotic disorders, neuroimaging, and eye movement

Miller, Joshua

Distinguished Research Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | jdmiller@uga.edu

Research Interests include the relations between models of personality and psychopathology, specifically various forms of externalizing problems and the personality disorders; most interested in behaviors such as crime, substance, risky sex, and aggression

Novak, Josh

Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Science
website | joshua.novak@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Aging and Gerontology; Assessment and Evaluation; Chronic Disease; Communication; Culture; Emotion; Exercise; Food & Nutrition; Group Processes and Intergroup Relations; Marriage, Family, and Close Relationships; Mental Health; Mental Illness and Disorders; Obesity; Physical Health and Well-being; Prevention and Implementation Science; Psychophysiology; Sexuality and Sexual Identity; Social Psychology; Substance Use and Addiction

Rawal, Smita

Assistant Professor, Clinical & Administrative Pharmacy
website | sr54982@uga.edu

Research Interests: Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality, Chronic Disease, Diversity, Geographic Information Systems, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders, Physical Health and Well-being, Risk Behaviors, Substance Use and Addiction, Survey Methods

Richards, Dylan

Assistant Professor, Psychology
website | dkrichards@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Assessment and Evaluation; Bias, Discrimination, and Inequality; Chronic Disease; Diversity; Emotion; Exercise; Experimental Methods; Food & Nutrition; Group Processes and Intergroup Relations; Identity; Mental Health; Mental Illness and Disorders; Obesity; Personality; Physical Health and Well-being; Prevention and Implementation Science; Risk Behaviors; Social Psychology; Substance Use and Addiction; Survey Methods

Rosario-Williams, Bev

Assistant Professor, Counseling and Human Development Services
website | bevrw@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Immigration, Marriage, Family, and Close Relationships, Mental Illness and Disorders, Prevention and Implementation Science, Youth, Adolescence, and Emerging Adulthood

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Sanders, Ashley

Associate Professor, Psychology
OIBR Grant Development Program Participant 2025-2027
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

Strauss, Gregory

Franklin Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | gstrauss@uga.edu

Research Interests include schizophrenia, psychosis risk, emotion, reward, and social cognition

Suveg, Cynthia

Professor, Psychology
Distinguished Scholar, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
website | csuveg@uga.edu

Research Interests include child, family, and developmental psychopathology

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Weatherly, Christopher

Assistant Professor, Social Work
website | cweatherly@uga.edu

Research Interests include: Environment and Ecosystems, Ethnography, Mental Health, Mental Illness and Disorders