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Department Head: Anne Sweaney
Address: 213 Dawson Hall · University of Georgia · 305 Sanford Dr · Athens, GA 30602-3622
Research: Health insurance and health expenditures, savings behavior, financial literacy, cumulative disadvantaged groups
Outreach: Peer financial counseling (Griffin)
Interests: Financial services, e-platforms, and mobile banking the unbanked in developing countries; Financial literacy and consumer economics in developing countries
Address: 129 Stuckey Conference Center, 1109 Experiement Street, Griffin, GA, 30223
E-Mail: sanong@uga.edu
Phone: 770-467-6086
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: Advanced Housing Theories, Housing in Contemporary Society, Housing Policy
Address: 203 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: Identifying factors affecting personal financial decision making of households across the different stages of life cycle and studying personal financial decisions of immigrants as they integrate into their host society
Teaching: Survey of Financial Planning, Family savings and Investments, Family Portfolio Management, Research Methods II
Address: 106 Housing Research Center (House B), 407 Sanford Dr, 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
Address: 111 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: idey@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4950
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: 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: 203 B Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
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@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-5661
Fax: 706-542-4397
Research: History of home economics/family and consumer sciences
Outreach: Meeting families' basic human needs
Teaching: Family Resource Management
Interests: African Studies, International Development
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: The economic well-being of families; economic hardship, material hardship, and poverty; and the methods researchers use to estimate these constructs.
Teaching: Consumer Decision Making; Consumer Protection; Research Methods; Quantitative Methods
Address: 205 Consumer Research Center (House C), 415 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: rnielsen@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 Consumer Research Center (House C), 415 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
E-Mail: mrupured@uga.edu
Phone: 706-583-0054
Fax: 706-542-1799
Research: Residential mobility patterns of low-income families, rental assistance programs
Teaching: Housing in Contemporary Society
Address: 104 Consumer Research Center (House C), 415 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: kskobba@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4951
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
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: Green and healthy homes; Lead poisoning and natural remedies; Weatherization
Outreach: Green Cleaning; Healthy Homes; Raducing Radon; Weatherization; Water Conservation; Rethinking Waste
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
Interests: My interests in Family Financial Planning are retirement planning and counseling.
Address: 326 Hoke Smith Annex, 300 Carlton St, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: kgirl07@uga.edu
Area of Focus: Financial planning
Address: 201 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: edwin@fcs.uga.edu
Phone: 706-206-6902
Fax: 706-542-4168
Interests: Green Building Technology
Advisory Committee: Andy Carswell, Anne Sweaney, Megan Lee
Address: 326 Hoke Smith Annex
E-Mail: colin517@uga.edu
Phone: 706-583-0564
Interests: Residential Property Management
Advisory Committee: Swarn Chatterjee, Velma Zahirovic-Herbert, Teresa Mauldin
Address: 262 (rm 1) Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: dealrach@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4870
Interests: Financial Planning
Advisory Committee: Swarn Chatterjee, Lance Palmer, Joseph Goetz
Address: 375 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: mdom29@uga.edu
Phone: 706-583-0564
Address: 213 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: khollanduga@gmail.com
Phone: 706-248-0133
Address: 375 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: skutzman@uga.edu
Interests: Financial Planning Education
Advisory Committee: Joe Goetz, Robb Nielsen, Lance Palmer
Address: 109 Dawson Hall
E-Mail: r.alan.moore@gmail.com
Phone: 706-542-2935
Advisory Committee: Teresa Mauldin, Joan Koonce, David Okech
Address: 375 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: poutlaw@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4874
Interests: Student Housing
E-Mail: melissa.pou1@gmail.com
Interests: Affordable Housing
Advisory Committee: Andrew Carswell, Kim Skobba
Address: 262 (rm 4) Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: kqueen11@uga.edu
Area of Focus: Financial Planning
Advisory Committee: Swarn Chatterjee, Lance Palmer, Joe Goetz
Address: 201 Consumer Research Center, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: jwr7359@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4138
Fax: 706-425-2247
Interests: Financial Planning, Financial Education, Poverty
Area of Focus: Financial Literacy, Consumer Economics, and Financial Planning
Advisory Committee: Sophia Anong, Teresa Mauldin, Swarn Chatterjee
Address: 375 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: towilli@uga.edu
Interests: Financial Planning: risk tolerance, financial literacy, investment suitability, plan design and delivery.
Advisory Committee: Joe Goetz, Brenda Cude, Lance Palmer, and Jerry Gale
Address: 262 (rm 4) Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: chrisw1@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4655
Address: 262 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: syoung89@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-0000
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: Andy Carswell, Joan Koonce, Lance Palmer, Joe Goetz
E-Mail: cwcphd@uga.edu
Interests: Women and wealth, financial institutions
Advisory Committee: Andy Carswell, Brenda Cude, and Swarn Chatterjee
E-Mail: ddanns@gsc.edu
Interests: Consumer expenditure, Consumer wellbeing, Poverty assesment, Consumer economics in developing countries.
Address: 262 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: dganguly@uga.edu
Phone: 706-248-6789
Interests: Consumer Economics, Financial Literacy; Family Budgeting and Finances; Personal Finance; Financial literacy and education across cultures
Advisory Committee: Brenda Cude, Sophia Anong, Swarn Chatterjee
Address: 109 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: rhgreene@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-2935
Interests: Consumer affair and marketing perfomance; decision making in family; physical and economic status of families who have diverse cultural background
Address: 101 Consumer Research Center (House C), 415 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: icery960@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4936
Address: 102 Housing Research Center (House B), 407 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: whewitt@uga.edu
Phone: 706-424-1103
Interests: Homeownership, Community Development and Public Policy
Address: 262 (rm 4) Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: mille022@uga.edu
Interests: Personal Finance, Retirement Planning and Employee Benefits, Personal Risk Tolerance and Investment Decisions, and Applied Behavioral Economics.
Advisory Committee: Robb Nielsen, Swarn Chatterjee, Lance Palmer
Address: 105 Consumer Research Center (House C), 415 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: michalp@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4936
Address: 101 Consumer Research Center (House C), 415 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: scottkw@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4936
Advisory Committee: Robb Nielsen, Teresa Mauldin, Ted Futris
Address: 201 Consumer Research Center (House C), 415 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: wilmarth@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4138
Job Description: Weatherization field monitor
Hobbies: Everything outdoors; Yosuff my dog; pickin' on the banger
Address: 329 Hoke Smith Annex, 300 Carlton St, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: matthewa@uga.edu
Phone: 706-612-6495
Address: 213 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: borgesi@uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-4856
Fax: 706-542-4397
Address: Stuckey Building, 1109 Experiment Street, Griffin, GA, 30223
E-Mail: bebyrd@uga.edu
Phone: 770-229-3322
Fax: 770-467-6092
Job Description: Accountant, Monitor and administer departmental, state and grant accounts.
Hobbies: Farming, gardening, camping, cooking
Address: 108 Housing Research Center (House B), 407 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: tracy@fcs.uga.edu
Phone: 706-583-0560
Fax: 706-583-0313
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: 110A Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: dcostyn@fcs.uga.edu
Phone: 706-542-8854
Fax: 706-542-4397
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: Staff
Address: 213 Dawson Hall, 305 Sanford Dr, Athens, GA 30602
E-Mail: tietz3@uga.edu
Phone: 630-306-3141
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
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