Focus on Faculty
- Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
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- Ecology
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- Environment and Design
- Faculty of Engineering
- Family and Consumer Sciences
- Forestry and Natural Resources
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- Public Health
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Jody Clay-Warner
Meigs Professor of Sociology Jody Clay-Warner studies responses to injustice and violence against women and serves as director of UGA’s Criminal Justice Studies Program.
Jim Porter
Meigs Professor of Ecology Jim Porter wants his students to learn about serious environmental problems and realize the importance of solving them.
Maria Navarro
Maria Navarro, an associate professor in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, has worked in many countries on projects related to hunger and poverty and brings this international experience to her UGA classes.
Audrey Haynes
Audrey Haynes, a faculty member in the School of Public and International Affairs, studies American politics and worries that too many people don’t realize the importance of understanding how our political institutions work.
James Moore
James Moore, an equine surgeon in the College of Veterinary Medicine, is engrossed in working with colleagues to create interactive 3-D teaching materials.
Barbara McCaskill
McCaskill conducts archival research about 19th- and early 20th-century African American writers and has developed “Reacting to the Past” classes about UGA’s 1961 desegregation.
Lonnie Brown
Brown holds the Cleveland Distinguished Chair of Legal Ethics and Professionalism in the School of Law, and his research and teaching both focus on the ethics of lawyering.
Sybilla Kazez
Sybilla Beckmann Kazez is passionate about math and about teaching, which led to her being named a 2011 Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, UGA’s highest recognition for superior instruction, and receiving a Regents’ Teaching Excellence Award.
Loch Johnson
Loch Johnson, Regents Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs, exemplifies the university’s motto “to teach, to serve and to inquire into the nature of things.” An expert on national security issues, he’s teaching a First-Year Odyssey course…



