Faculty Affiliates
The CSSR has Faculty Affiliates from across Augusta University with numerous substantive and methodological specializations. Please reach out to faculty individually or through the CSSR (cssr@augusta.edu) for research opportunities and collaborations.
Dr. Wendy Turner
Professor of History - Department of History, Anthropology, and Philosophy
Substantive Specialties: History of Law, History of Medicine, Pre-Modern Disabilities, Applied Medicine, Forensics, History of Science
Dr. Will Hatcher
Professor of Public Administration, Department of Social Sciences
Substantive Specialties: Public Administration, Public Policy, Health Policy, Public Health, Community Development, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Methodological Specialties: Survey Research, Online Surveys, Factor Analysis, Qualitative Content Analysis
Dr. Elizabeth Culatta
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Social Sciences
Substantive Specialties: Medical Sociology, Identity, the Life Course, Sexual Victimization, Justice Processes
Methodological Specialties: Survey Research, Experiments
Dr. Candace Griffith
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Department of Social Sciences
Substantive Specialties: Campus Crime, Right-Wing Extremism, Immigration, Cybercrime/Threats
Methodological Specialties: In-depth Interviews, Qualitative Methods, Survey Research
Dr. Gregg Murray
Professor of Political Science, Department of Social Sciences
Substantive Specialties: Political Behavior, Public Policy, Research Methods
Methodological Specialties: Quantitative Methods, Experiments, Event History Analysis, Interrupted Time Series, Computational Text Analysis, Machine Learning
Dr. Raquel Oliveira
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Department of Social Sciences
Substantive Specialties: life-course criminology; bio-psycho-social criminology; mental health; the criminal justice system
Methodological Specialties: survey research; survival analysis; latent class analysis; in-depth interviews; content analysis; thematic analysis
