Research: Manufactured housing, Latino issues, indoor air quality, community and housing development, housing finance. Dr. Atiles serves on the Editorial Boards of the Housing Education & Research Association and the Journal of Extension.

Outreach: Affordable housing education programs, healthy homes and safety, indoor air quality, water quality and energy conservation.

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: 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: Stuckey Building, 1109 Experiment Station, Griffin, GA, 30223
E-Mail: swarn@uga.edu
Phone: 770-467-6086
Fax: 770-467-6092

Research: Online consumer behaviors, consumer information, consumer policy

Outreach: 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

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

Address: 212A Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: durrence@uga.edu
Phone: 404-274-6070

Teaching: Teaching HACE 3100 Fall Semester 2008 on Griffin Campus

Address: 213 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: pfletche@uga.edu
Phone: 770-656-3660
Fax: 770-467-6092

Teaching: Family Estate Planning & Law

Address: 212A 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

Research: Topics related to nonprofit management in housing including charitable giving, residential/environmental satisfaction, and renter finances

Teaching: Managing Nonprofit & Special Community Housing; Residential Property Management Law; Housing in Contemporary Society

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 management; Low-income consumers and poverty

Outreach: High School Financial Literacy, Medicare Prescription Drug Education, General Financial Planning

Address: 233 Hoke Smith Annex, 300 Carlton St, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: jkoonce@fcs.uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4865
Fax: 706-542-1799

Research: Homelessness, poverty and affordable housing

Address: Griffin Campus, 1109 Experiment Street, Griffin, GA, 30223
E-Mail: jmassey@mindspring.com
Phone: 770-632-7872
Fax: 770-631-1966

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 30602-3622
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 and Demographics 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; poverty and material hardship.

Outreach: Provides technical assistance on health insurance and poverty measurement; Service-Learning Fellow 2007-08.

Teaching: Consumer decision making; family economic environment; theory of households and markets; research 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: Bankruptcy and Foreclosure, Financial Behavior, Financial Education Programs, Retirement Planning

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

Address: 212A Dawson Hall, 305 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: UGA-Griffin Campus, Stuckey Building, Room 129, 1109 Experiment Street, Griffin, GA 30223
E-Mail: vherbert@uga.edu
Phone: 770-229-3322
Fax: 770-467-6092

Area of Focus: Financial planning

E-Mail: pma@uga.edu
Phone: 706-247-6227

Area of Focus: Financial planning and education for first generation middle-class and minority citizens.

E-Mail: acordy@uga.edu
Phone: 770-401-4607, 706-357-3431

Research Interest: 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

Research Interest: Consumer savings behavior and immigrant financial integration.

Advisory Committee: Houston, Sabia, Bachtel

E-Mail: ania@uga.edu
Phone: 404-923-2226

Area of Focus: Providing financial management information for poverty stricken and struggling middle-class families. CONGRATULATIONS! GRADUATED MAY, 2008.

Advisory Committee: Palmer, Goetz, Koonce

E-Mail: eagilmore001@hotmail.com
Phone: 678-938-6352

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

E-Mail: jdm1@uga.edu
Phone: 706-255-7998, 706-425-8849

Address: , 109 College Station Road, Unit J109, Athens, GA, 30605
E-Mail: poutlaw@uga.edu
Phone: 407-435-4639

Research Interest: 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.

E-Mail: lshock@uga.edu
Phone: 404-556-3544

Research Interest: 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.

E-Mail: timera@uga.edu
Phone: 706-245-7135

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

E-Mail: dlthomas30@gmail.com
Phone: 706-227-6175

Research Interest: Homeownership and the role of home buyer education.

Advisory Committee: Carswell, James, Turner

E-Mail: washingtn@uga.edu
Phone: 804-393-0472

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.

E-Mail: watersj@uga.edu
Phone: 478-213-1001

Research Interest: The effectiveness of consumer education programs, consumers' perceptions and usage of convenience goods and services. CONGRATULATIONS! GRADUATED MAY, 2008.

Advisory Committee: Nickols, Cude, Andress

E-Mail: wilmarth@uga.edu
Phone: 706-549-3375

Address: 108 Housing Research Center (House B), 407 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: pasta02@uga.edu
Phone: 770-315-0163

Research Interest: 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
Phone: 404-816-1153 ext.540
Fax: 404-759-2672 (fax)

Research Interest: Consumer Economics, Behavioral Economics, Housing, or Financial Management.

Advisory Committee: Cude, Mauldin, Palmer

Address: 100 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: anneduke@uga.edu
Phone: 706-546-7755

Research Interest: Understanding how housing influences the physical, social and economic well-being of an individual/household and the nation.

E-Mail: miguel_a_fernandez04@yahoo.com
Phone: 818-770-0775

Research Interest: 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
Phone: 706-461-1600

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

Advisory Committee: Sweaney, James, Nielsen

E-Mail: lesgreen@uga.edu
Phone: 435-757-7838

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

E-Mail: crhudson@uga.edu

Research Interest: 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.

E-Mail: mjktex@uga.edu
Phone: 678-376-4812

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

Address: 109 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: irkunovs@uga.edu
Phone: 706-389-6362

Research Interest: Non-profit housing; especially examples of adaptive reuse.

Advisory Committee: James, Sweaney, Nielsen

E-Mail: gpeek@uga.edu
Phone: 706-369-1992

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

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

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

Job Description: Provide administrative support to Department Head, faculty and staff.

Hobbies: Traveling, spending time with family, UGA Athletics -- GO DAWGS!

Address: 213 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Drive, Athens, GA 30602-2622
E-Mail: sbrooks@fcs.uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4856
Fax: 706-542-4397

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

Address: 113 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: jayjones@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4840
Fax: 706-542-4862

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

Hobbies: Reading, Salsa and Belly dancing, Writing, Music, and Art.

Address: 101 Consumer Research Center (House C), 415 Sanford Drive, Athens GA, 30602
E-Mail: mumbi@fcs.uga.edu
Phone: 706-583-0030
Fax: 706-542-4932

Job Description: Provide administrative support to faculty throughout the grant process as well as administrative support for faculty.

Hobbies: Photography, gardening, reading and painting

Address: 201 Consumer Research Center (House C), 415 Sanford Drive, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: datemple@uga.edu
Phone: 706-543-0560
Fax: 706-542-4932

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 for the graduate program and faculty. Maintain and update departmental websites.

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

Address: 106 Housing and Demographics Research Center (House B), 407 Sanford Drive, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: nikki@fcs.uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4952
Fax: 706-583-0313