Meigs Professor of Sociology Director, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research Dr. Jody Clay-Warner, Meigs Professor of Sociology (view Dr. Clay-Warner's Meigs video) and Director of the Owens Institute for Behavioral Research, has been at the University of Georgia since 1998. She received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Emory University, and her specialty areas include social psychology, criminology, and gender. She is the co-editor of Social Psychology Quarterly and the co-director of the Laboratory for the Study of Social Interaction (LASSI). The overarching goal of her research is to understand responses to injustice. She considers this issue from both a basic and applied perspective. Specifically, she examines the underlying processes that guide responses to injustice, as well as the implications of these processes for reactions to concrete forms of injustice, such as criminal victimization. She employs experimental and survey methods to investigate these issues, and her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of State. Her current projects focus on human trafficking victimization in Sub-Saharan Africa, the mental and physical health effects of violent victimization, and the relationship between gendered violence and inequality. Education Education: Ph.D., Sociology, Emory University, 1997 M.A., Psychology, Georgia State University, 1992 B.A., Speech Communication, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1990
