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Megan Lee

Megan Lee

ABD
  • Research interests:
  • Social justice; racial disparities; equity; inclusivity in education contexts; African American youth; anti-racist pedagogy and practices
Email: mw19394@uga.edu
Seunghyun Moon

Seunghyun Moon

  • Research interests:
  • social policy; labor market; young adults; precariat; childbirth ; work-life balance; poverty; gender issues in the labor market
Jay  O'Shields

Jay O'Shields

Candidate
  • Research interests:
  • improving treatment outcomes for individuals with severe mental health problems by exploring the biological treatment markers and disease state markers of mental illness
Email: jo00764@uga.edu
Oluwayomi Paseda

Oluwayomi Paseda

ABD
  • Research interests:
  • reentry; criminal justice reform; Black feminist thought; Black women involved in the criminal legal system
Email: Oluwayomi@uga.edu
Ryan Patrick

Ryan Patrick

  • Research interests:
  • LGBTQ youth, transgender, nonbinary and gender nonconforming communities as well as substance abuse, trauma, intimate partner violence, resiliency and community building
Jennie Pless

Jennie Pless

Candidate
  • Research interests:
  • LGBTQ populations; sexual minorities; intimate partner violence; sexual assault; sexual health; HIV/AIDS
Shannon Power

Shannon Power

  • Research interests:
  • aging; gerontology; healthcare access and equity; assistive technology and telehealth for older adults aging in place; virtual therapeutic technique
Email: shannonpower@uga.edu
Elyssa Schroeder

Elyssa Schroeder

Candidate
  • Research interests:
  • gender-based violence; domestic violence; human trafficking; implementation science; international social work; program design and evaluation; CBPR
Email: elyssa@uga.edu
Caroline Sharkey

Caroline N. Sharkey

PhD successfully defended March 15, 2023
  • Research interests:
  • trauma; historical trauma; urbanicity; YPAR; socially engaged art and digital storytelling; restorative justice practices; community violence; mass and school shootings; curriculum violence; anti-racist culturally sustaining pedagogies; trauma-informed teaching
Email: ckazza7@uga.edu
Christopher Strickland

Christopher Strickland

  • Research interests:
  • new social movement studies; ethnomethodology; critical pedagogies
Email: cas86985@uga.edu
Jana  Woodiwiss

Jana Woodiwiss

  • Research interests:
  • parent-child separation as a result of immigration; trauma and trauma interventions; Latinx community; case management; program management; theory development; policy analysis
Email: jlw70925@uga.edu
Hyesu Yeo

Hyesu Yeo

ABD
  • Research interests:
  • aging policy; labor policy; life-course labor; the retirement process; life after retirement; low-income workers
Email: Hyesu.Yeo@uga.edu
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