Research: Workforce housing, Latino issues, indoor air quality. Dr. Atiles serves on the Editorial Board of the Housing Education & Research Association

Outreach: Radon gas, water quality and energy conservation.

Teaching: Cross-Cultural Seminars for Extension Faculty

Address: 224 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: jhatiles@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4860
Fax: 706-542-4862

Research: Demographics, statistics, substance use, and program evaluation

Outreach: Providing local agencies, organizations, businesses, and the faith community with demographic data

Teaching: Family Demographics and Policy, Demographics of Special Populations

Address: 102 Consumer Research Center (House C), 415 Sanford Dr., Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: dbachtel@fcs.uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4894
Fax: 706-542-4932

Research: Health and Health Care Decision Making, Obesity, Demand for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Health and Wealth dynamics

Teaching: Research Methods, Consumer Decision Making

Address: 104 Consumer Research Center (House C), 415 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: vibha@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4851

Research: Residential Property Management, Homeownership, Mortgage Options, Mortgage Fraud

Teaching: Housing Theory, Advanced Housing Theories, Housing in Contemporary Society, Housing Policy

Address: 202 Consumer Research Center (House C), 415 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: carswell@fcs.uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4867
Fax: 706-583-0313

Research: Household investment behavior,Income Uncertainty, Healthcare and welfare dynamics, Asset allocation of immigrants

Teaching: Introduction to Personal Finance, Savings & Investments, Family Economic Environment, Retirement Planning & employee benefits

Address: 106 Housing and Demographics Research Center (House B), 407 Sanford Drive, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: swarn@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4722
Fax: 706-583-0313

Research: College students' financial literacy, online consumer behaviors, consumer information, consumer policy

Outreach: Director, UGA Center on Economic Education, funded consumer representative to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners; Peer Financial Counseling Program

Teaching: Consumer protection, consumer policy, online consumer behavior at the graduate level; Money skills for non-majors

Address: 201 Housing Research Center (House B), 407 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: bcude@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4857
Fax: 706-583-0313

Teaching: Family Estate Planning & Law

Address: 262 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: Greg@GarciaTaxLaw.com
Phone: 706-548-1128

Research: Client Communication, Risk Tolerance, Financial Behavior Change, Financial Planning Education

Teaching: Survey of Family Financial Planning, Financial Counseling, Family Financial Planning Capstone

Address: 204 Housing and Demographics Research Center (House B), 407 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: goetz@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-2066
Fax: 706-583-0313

Address: 262 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: durrence@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4870

Research: Charitable giving and planned giving; Both investment (personal finance) and consumption (residential satisfaction) facets of the housing decision

Teaching: Managing Nonprofit & Special Community Housing (5310/7310); Residential Property Management Law (4320/6320); Housing in Contemporary Society (3300); Social Science & The Study of Human Happiness (1990H);Consumers in Society (1110)

Address: 203 Consumer Research Center (House C), 415 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: rjames@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4951
Fax: 706-583-0313

Research: Family financial planning; Financial behavior of youth and family communication about finances; Low-income consumers and poverty

Outreach: Insurance and Risk Management; Savings and Investing; Retirement; Estate Planning; Taxes

Address: 228 Hoke Smith Annex, 300 Carlton St, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: jkoonce@fcs.uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4865
Fax: 706-542-1799

Research: Savings Behavior; Earned Income Tax Credit; Poverty dynamics; economic consequences of divorce and single-parenthood; financial hardship

Teaching: Family economics; consumer economics

Address: 203B Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602-3622
E-Mail: tmauldin@fcs.uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4854
Fax: 706-542-4397

Research: Personal Financial Management, Bankruptcy, Social Learning theory and Personal Financial Management, College students and Personal Financial Management, Low-income households, Single-parent households, Teenage-mother households

Teaching: Family Economic Environment, Introductory Consumer Economics, Consumer Decisions: Home and Market, Introduction to Personal Finance, Consumer Protection, Professional Seminar and Internship Orientation, Housing and Consumer Economics Internship

Address: 209 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: dmoorman@fcs.uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-5661
Fax: 706-542-4397

Research: History of home economics/family and consumer sciences; women's roles in international development

Interests: African Studies Institute faculty member

Address: 203 Housing Research Center (House B), 407 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: snickols@fcs.uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4849
Fax: 706-583-0313

Research: Health insurance dynamics; survey research methods; families and finances; poverty and material hardship.

Teaching: Consumer decision making; family economic environment; research methods; quantitative methods.

Address: 205 Consumer Research Center (House C), 415 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: rnielsen@fcs.uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-8885
Fax: 706-583-0313

Research: Expanding financial education and planning services to underserved populations through student provided education and planning services. Improving financial education through evaluation and joint deliver with other services.

Teaching: Family Retirement Planning & Employee Benefits, Family Income Tax Planning, Survey of Financial Planning Computer Lab, Survey of Financial Planning

Address: 204 Housing Research Center (House B), 407 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: lpalmer@fcs.uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4916
Fax: 706-542-4397

Research: Resident Satisfaction Employee Engagement, Leadership, Resident Satisfcation in Residential Property Management

Teaching: Residential Property Management

Interests: Student Engagement, Career Planning and Leadership Development

Address: , 245 Country Club Drive, Building 200, Suite E, Stockbridge, GA, 30281
E-Mail: debbie@thequadrillion.com
Phone: 404-787-4409
Fax: 706-542-4397

Research: Workforce housing, barriers to developing affordable housing, community and economic development, manufactured housing

Outreach: Housing technical assistance program coordination for community-based planning teams, Employment-based housing demand analysis. Georgia Initiative for Community Housing, HDRC Director of Research, Chairman of the Housing Team for Partners for a Prosperous Athens.

Address: 262 Dawson Hall, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: rodgers@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4161
Fax: 706-542-4397

Research: Impact of financial literacy and fraud prevention educational programs on consumer behaviors

Outreach: Financial literacy for youth and low-income audiences, particularly the working poor; consumer fraud prevention; workforce preparedness

Address: 218 Hoke Smith Annex, 300 Carlton St, Athens, GA 30602-4356
E-Mail: mrupured@uga.edu
Phone: 706-583-0054
Fax: 706-542-1799

Research: Housing for the elderly; affordable housing; manufactured housing; household technology; and public policy

Teaching: Housing policy, Household technology, Internship orientation, Housing for the elderly

Address: 215 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602-3622
E-Mail: asweaney@fcs.uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4877
Fax: 706-542-4397

Research: Workforce housing, barriers to developing affordable housing, community and economic development, manufactured housing

Outreach: Housing technical assistance program coordination for community-based planning teams, Employment-based housing demand analysis

Job Description: Georgia Initiative for Community Housing program coordinator, HDRC Associate Director of Research and Board of Advisors liaison, Grants coordinator and researcher

Address: 202 Housing and Demographics Research Center (House B), Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: klt@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4949
Fax: 706-583-0313

Research: Pre-purchase education; homeownership sustainability; green & healthy homes

Outreach: Homebuyer education; home maintenance; indoor environmental issues; green cleaning; lead safety; household water conservation

Address: 224 Hoke Smith Annex, 300 Carlton St, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: prturner@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-9165
Fax: 706-542-1799

Research: Urban land use, the urban development process, property rights and land use regulation, housing and real estate brokerage markets, and issues in local government finance.

Teaching: Family Economic Behavior, Housing in Contemporary Society, Consumer Decisions, Consumers' Market Environment.

Address: 111 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: vherbert@uga.edu
Phone: 770-229-3322
Fax: 770-467-6092

Area of Focus: Financial planning GRADUATED, FALL, 2009 CONGRATULATIONS!!

Advisory Committee: Palmer, Goetz, Harness

Address: 104 Consumer Research Center (House C), 415 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: pma@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4950

Interests: Financial Planning

Address: 205 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: kbolling@uga.edu
Phone: 770-235-8229

Interests: Financial Planning

Address: 201 Consumer Research Center (House C), 415 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: browngg2@gmail.com
Phone: 706-542-4138

Address: 205 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: Mcasey10@uga.edu
Phone: 404-735-7585

Area of Focus: Financial planning

Address: 201 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: edwin@fcs.uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4864
Fax: 706-542-4168

Interests: Residential Property Management

Address: 375 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: dealrach@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4874

Interests: The possible social and academic factors associated with the use of Facebook and MySpace among teenagers and college students.

Advisory Committee: Cude, Palmer, Simmons

E-Mail: miti28@uga.edu

Area of Focus: Rural area financial planning throughout Georgia and Southern parts of the United States.

Address: 104 Consumer Research Center (House C), 415 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: jag1022@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4950

Address: 205 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: jsgunter@uga.edu
Phone: 205-260-7567

Interests: Analyzing the effect of regulatory decisions on consumer investments in health capital.

Advisory Committee: Mauldin, Cude, Sabia

E-Mail: jdm1@uga.edu

Interests: Financial Planning Education

Address: 375 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: r.alan.moore@gmail.com
Phone: 404-975-7420

Advisory Committee: Mauldin, Koonce, Okech

Address: 212 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: poutlaw@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4874

Interests: Financial Planning

Address: 375 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: jwr7359@uga.edu
Phone: 706-201-8093
Fax: 706-425-2247

Area of Focus: Financial literacy and education.

Address: 104 Consumer Research Center (House C), 415 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: mshepard@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4950

Area of Focus: Helping people manage their personal finances as well as helping people plan for their financial future. GRADUATED, SUMMER 2009 CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Advisory Committee: Goetz, Chatterjee, Palmer

Address: 212 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: lshock@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4874

Address: 105 Consumer Research Center (House C), 415 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: 21dostar@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-9013

Interests: Housing that encourages and enables both community and independence in the elderly and people with disabilities. Intelligent design that promotes interdependence between all community members.

Advisory Committee: James, Nielsen, Glass, Sweaney

E-Mail: timera@uga.edu

Area of Focus: Providing banking and investment advice to affluent investors.

Advisory Committee: Palmer, Goetz, James

E-Mail: dlthomas30@gmail.com

Interests: Financial Planning

Address: 205 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: daward@uga.edu
Phone: 404-290-0009

Interests: Homeownership and the role of home buyer education.

Advisory Committee: Carswell, James, Turner

E-Mail: washingtn@uga.edu

Area of Focus: My ultimate goal is to guide people and families of all socioeconomic backgrounds through the financial planning process while incorporating only clear and honest advice and methods.

Advisory Committee: Palmer, Goetz, Chatterjee

Address: 104 Consumer Research Center (House C), 415 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: watersj@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4950

Interests: The impact of financial education on low-income and under-educated populations with respect to purchasing higher-order financial services products (i.e. mortgages, securities, insurance, etc.).

Advisory Committee: Carswell, Koonce, Palmer

E-Mail: cwcphd@uga.edu

Interests: Consumer Economics, Behavioral Economics, Housing, or Financial Management.

Advisory Committee: Cude, Mauldin, Palmer

E-Mail: anneduke@uga.edu

Interests: Consumers' perceptions of insurance regulator's websites, financial planning programs at historically black colleges, and college student's knowledge of employee benefits.

Advisory Committee: Cude, Koonce, Marlowe, Hoyt, Chatterjee

E-Mail: stilbill@uga.edu

Interests: Homeownership and foreclosure, financial management of families (budgeting, savings, debt, credit etc.), financial counseling, and bankruptcy.

Advisory Committee: Sweaney, Nielsen, Carswell

Address: 111 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: lesgreen@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4870

Interests: The education and transformation of communities into ones that build and retain wealth.

Advisory Committee: Palmer, Koonce, Goetz, Cude

Address: 104 Consumer Research Center (House C), 415 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: crhudson@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4950

Interests: Financial education programs and their effectiveness with youth; increasing awareness about financial education programs that target youth; and identifying financial education opportunities for work-based learning students.

Advisory Committee: Cude, Koonce, Palmer, Adams

Address: 262 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: mjktex@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4870

Interests: Financial literacy and new ways of improving the effectiveness of financial education.

Advisory Committee: Cude, Sweaney, Palmer

Address: 109 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: irkunovs@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-2935

Interests: The effect of home ownership on citizenship.

Advisory Committee: Sweaney, Nielsen, Atiles

Address: 262 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: gpeek@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-7947

Advisory Committee: Nielsen, Bhargava, Chatterjee

Address: 105 Consumer Research Center (House C), 415 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: michalp@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-9013

Interests: To explore the concept of using reverse mortgages as a retirement planning tool.

Advisory Committee: Palmer, Nielsen, Carswell, Moorman

Address: 107 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: mcseay@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4087

Interests: Family and consumer economics, consumer information and education, and consumer decision-making. Focusing health outcomes, relationship satisfaction, child well-being measures, and family well-being measures.

Advisory Committee: Nielsen, Mauldin, Bhargava

Address: 109 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: wilmarth@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-2935

Job Description: Program Specialist 1

Hobbies: Reading, Enjoying friends and family

Address: 130 Stuckey, 1109 Experiment street, Griffin, GA 30223
E-Mail: allenaf@uga.edu
Phone: 770-229-3322
Fax: 770-467-6092

Address: 224 Hoke Smith Annex, 300 Carlton St, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: sabailey@uga.edu
Phone: 706-340-6349

Job Description: Radon Educator

Hobbies: singing, reading, cooking, decorating

Address: Hall County Coop Extension, 734 E Crescent Drive, Suite 300, Gainesville, GA, 30501
E-Mail: bennettg@uga.edu
Phone: 770-535-8290
Fax: 770-531-3994

Address: 113 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: mcolson@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4840

Job Description: Help undergraduates to understand their degree requirements and to plan their course of study while making them aware of the different options and opportunities available.

Hobbies: Reading and gardening.

Address: 110B Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: dcostyn@fcs.uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-8854
Fax: 706-542-4397

Job Description: Gather and interpret data, GIS consultant, administrative support for Dr. Douglas Bachtel

Hobbies: Archaeology, Geocaching, Photography, Writing and Much More

Address: 103 Consumer Research Center (House C), 415 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: kcotham@fcs.uga.edu
Phone: 706-583-0030

Address: 229 Hoke Smith Annex, 300 Carlton St, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: mmcbride@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-8860
Fax: 706-542-1799

Job Description: Perform data analyses for the Agricultural Experiment Station funded studies

Address: 107 Housing Research Center (House B), 407 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: ymimura@fcs.uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4758
Fax: 706-583-0313

Job Description: Monitor and administer departmental state and grant accounts. Support faculty and the department is various administrative and academic tasks.

Hobbies: Photography, gardening, reading and painting

Address: 108 Housing Research Center (House B), 407 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: datemple@uga.edu
Phone: 706-543-0560
Fax: 706-583-0313

Job Description: Provide administrative support for the undergraduate program, faculty and internship program.

Hobbies: Church activities, reading, and junkin' at yard sales

Address: 205 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Drive, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: ltoney@fcs.uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4655
Fax: 706-542-4397

Job Description: Provide administrative support to the Department Head, faculty, staff, and graduate program. Also, maintain and update departmental websites.

Hobbies: Creative writing, acting, singing, fishing, swimming, reading classic novels, and gardening.

Address: 213 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: nikki@fcs.uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4856
Fax: 706-542-4397