STAR Research Database
Looking for an opportunity to get involved in research? Check out our compiled list of professors and researchers who are conducting research right now, and may be accepting students!
Criminal Justice
Institution: Georgia State University
Position: Professor, Criminal Justice and Criminology
Research Interests: Recurring victimization, Sexual victimization, Resiliency from victimization
Accepting Students: Yes
Dentistry
Institution: The Dental College of Georgia
Position: Assistant Dean of Student Admissions, Oral Biology and Diagnostic Sciences
Research Interests: Running data on success, stress, EQi
Accepting Students: Yes
Health Economics
Institution: Augusta University
Position: Associate Professor, Population Health Sciences (Health Economics and Modeling Division)
Research Interests: Health policy, health economics, cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis, health outcomes research
Accepting Students: Yes
Human Development
Institution: Emory School of Medicine
Position: Associate Professor
Research Interests: parenting, culture, African American child development, Latinx child development, ethnic racial socialization, self-regulation development, academic achievement, language development; racism and discrimination
Accepting Students: Yes
Institution: University of Georgia
Position: Associate Professor
Research Interests: Resilience and children/youth development
Accepting Students: No
Medicine
Institution: Augusta University
Position: Regents Professor
Research Interests: biomarkers, geocoding, aging, parenting, and health disparity regarding ACEs
Accepting Students: Yes
Institution: Medical College of Georgia
Position: Medical Director and Fellowship Director
Department: Emergency Medicine
Research Interests: Pre hospital care, disaster preparedness
Accepting Students: Yes
Institution: Medical College of Georgia
Position: Associate Dean for Regional Campuses
Department: Family Medicine
Research Interests: Public health, maternal mortality, ACEs/trauma informed care
Accepting Students: Yes
Nursing
Institution: Augusta University College of Nursing
Position: Associate Professor, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Research Interests: Pediatric Population ACES, Resilience, Protective Factors
Accepting Students: Yes
Psychiatry
Institution: Emory University
Position: Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Neural mechanisms of attentional control dysfunction in PTSD; Neuroscience of dissociation; neurophysiological correlates of reward processing deficits in PTSD; neurobiological impact of racism.
Accepting Students: Yes
Institution: Augusta University Health
Position: Professor
Research Interests: Child development, early onset of severe mental illness, autism
Accepting Students: Yes
William “Vaughn” McCall
Institution: Medical College of Georgia
Position: Distinguished University Chair of Psychiatry and Health Behavior
Research Interests: insomnia, nightmares, depression, PTSD, suicide, biomarkers, electroconvulsive therapy
Accepting Students: Yes
Institution: Emory/Yerkes
Position: Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Stress/trauma, women’s health, health disparities, PTSD, neuroendocrinology, psychoimmunology
Accepting Students: Yes
Institution: Emory University School of Medicine
Position: Assistant Professor, Co-Director of the Grady Trauma Project
Research Interests: trauma, ACEs, post traumatic stress disorder, emotion dysregulation
Accepting Students: Yes
Institution: Emory University School of Medicine
Position: Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Posttraumatic stress disorder, women’s health, neuroimaging, memory, emotion
Accepting Students: Yes
Institution: Emory University
Position: Assistant Professor
Research Interests: PTSD, trauma, neuroimaging, treatment, TMS
Accepting Students: Yes
Institution: Augusta University
Position: Professor
Department: Clinical and Community Psychology
Research Interests: juvenile delinquency, trauma, psychopathy, forensic psychology
Accepting Students: Yes
Psychology
Institution: Georgia State University
Position: Assistant Professor
Department: Clinical and Community Psychology
Research Interests: Health inequity, racism, and trauma
Accepting Students: No
Institution: Georgia State University
Position: Associate Professor, Program Coordinator
Department: Counseling and Psychological Services
Research Interests: Discrimination and other minority stressors and mental health, cultural humility in training and practice, collective action, utilization of intersectionality in psychological research, practice, and training.
Accepting Students: Yes
Institution: Georgia State University
Position: Professor, Psychology
Research Interests: Positive Youth Development, Resilience, Culture and Immigration
Accepting Students: Yes
Institution: Mercer University
Position: Assistant Professor
Department: Clinical Psychology
Research Interests: Trauma, stress, developmental psychopathology
Accepting Students: No
Public Health
Institution: Augusta University, Department of Occupational Therapy; Joint Appointment in the Institute of Public and Preventive Health
Position: Associate Professor
Research Interests: autism (across lifespan, particularly adulthood); mental health; system barriers and racism; health services research; large scale data analysis including Medicare and Medicaid
Accepting Students: Yes
Institution: Georgia State University
Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy & Behavioral Sciences
Research Interests: sexual assault, alcohol use, suicide, prevention, clinical trials, telemedicine, mHealth
Accepting Students: Yes
Institution: Georgia State University
Position: Clinical Associate Professor
Research Interests: Infant, early childhood, school mental health; Individualized positive behavior support for young children and school-aged students with challenging behaviors; universal behavior screening in schools
Accepting Students: Yes
Institution: Georgia State University
Position: Assistant Professor and Director of Community Outreach & Engagement
Research Interests: Violence Prevention
Accepting Students: Yes
Institution: Georgia State University
Position: Professor, Health Policy Behavioral Sciences
Research Interests: Child Maltreatment Prevention, Child Trauma, Child Mental Health, Evidence-based Practices
Accepting Students: Yes
Institution: Georgia State University
Position: Professor, School of Public Health
Research Interests: child maltreatment, parenting, implementation research, partner violence
Accepting Students: Yes
Sociology & Social Work
Institution: Georgia State University
Position: Professor, Social Work
Research Interests: Restorative Justice, Prison abolition, Palestine
Accepting Students: Yes
Institution: Augusta University
Position: Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Sociology
Research Interests: Child physical abuse, child sexual abuse, murdering of children, Munchausen by proxy, human trafficking, domestic violence, resiliency and mental health, media perceptions and reporting of crime, proactive and reactive measures dealing with childhood victimization,
and mapping.
Accepting Students: Yes
Institution: Georgia State University
Position: Distinguished Professor, Chair, Department of Sociology
Research Interests: Mental health; sexual health; substance use; medical sociology; health policy; sexual and gender minority adults and youth; homeless youth
Accepting Students: Yes