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Affiliated Faculty

Page Anderson
Department: Psychology
Research Interests: Anxiety disorders, virtual reality, culturally informed treatment 

Brenda Sims Blackwell
Department: Criminal Justice
Research Interests: Women and Crime, criminal justice responses to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and sexual exploitation. 

Jeremy Crampton
Department: Geosciences
Research Interests: GIS, mapping, new spatial media, & surveillance 

Marci Culley
Department: Psychology
Research Interests: Individual, community, & regulation/agency responses to environmental disputes/hazards and Environmental justice 

Dean Dabney
Department: Criminal Justice
Research Interests: Criminal offending & crime control in an organizational context, drug markets, & qualitative methods 

Sarita Davis
Department:  African American Studies
Research Interests:  HIV prevention education & sexual health in the African American community

Daniel Deocampo
Department: Geosciences
Research Interests: Environmental mineralogy , geochemistry, water and soil resources, geology & human health
Sedimentology, mineralogy, & archaeological geology 

Jim Emshoff
Department: Psychology
Research Interests: Program evaluation, prevention, community coalitions, substance abuse, violence, & dissemination/implementation research  

Frank Floyd
Department: Psychology
Research Interests: Families & developmental disabilities
Gay, lesbian, bisexual youth
African American couples 

Yuki Fujioka
Department: Communication
Research Interests: Audience responses to health & race-related information (HIV/AIDS & mental illness)
eHealth, underserved populations, and health literacy 

Amy Glass
Department: School of Social Work
Research Interests: Children’s mental health systems of care
Child Welfare 

Cindy Hoffner
Department: Communication
Research Interests: Psychology of media (uses & effects) and emotional responses to media
-Media & health (specifically mental health) 

Heather Kleider
Department: Psychology
Research Interests: Episodic memory, with an emphasis on face recognition and eyewitness accuracy 

Gabriel Kuperminc
Department: Psychology 
Research Interests: Adolescent/youth development  & immigrant families
Prevention of school violence, teen pregnancy, & substance abuse 

Kelly Lewis
Department: Psychology
Research Interests: Empowerment Implementation Research with under-represented populations
Program planning, implementation, & evaluation
Education & health disparities
Africa & Afro-Diaspora 

Jim Marton
Department: Economics
Research Interests: Health insurance financing, Medicaid, SCHIP, & child health 

Deirdre Oakley
Department: Sociology
Research Interests: Housing inequality & urban disadvantage
GIS & spatial analysis 

Inas Rashad
Department: Economics
Research Interests: Physical activity, nutrition, urban sprawl, food & gas prices, metropolitan area, & minorities 

Shannon Self-Brown
Department: Center for Healthy Development/Public Health
Research Interests: Child maltreatment prevention
Trauma exposure in children & adolescents 

Wendy Simonds
Department: Sociology
Research Interests: Medicalization, women’s health, & health care work 

Brent Teasdale
Department: Criminal Justice
Research Interests: Mental health, crime, & criminal justice
Substance abuse prevention & community contexts of crime 

Griff Tester
Department: Sociology
Research Interests: Housing inequalities, health disparities, place attachment, & the meaning of home 

Volkan Topalli
Department: Criminal Justice
Research Interests: Urban violence, drug markets, offender decision-making, and the psychology of crime 

Daniel Whitaker
Department: Center for Healthy Development /Public Health
Research Interests: Child maltreatment prevention & partner violence prevention http://publichealth.gsu.edu/whitaker.asp

Cassandra White
Department: Anthropology 
Research Interests: Cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, Hansen’s disease (leprosy), stigma, Brazilian culture, Latin America, immigration, racial identity, gender, & social stratification  

Rihana Williams
Department: Psychology
Research Interests: Acquisition of vocabulary through reading in children & adults
Interventions to increase reading comprehension & vocabulary knowledge 

Alex Zelikovsky
Department: Computer Science
Research Interests: Genetics, genetic disease, predisposition, data analysis, prediction, clustering, & Giotech 

Yanqing Zhang
Department: Computer Science
Research Interests: Hybrid intelligent systems
Applications: bioinformatics, medical informatics and chemical informatics
Computational web intelligence