Danielle Charlemagne
Terminal degree: Ph.D. ’25 in educational theory and practice with a focus on social studies education, University of Georgia
Job title and department: Limited-term assistant professor, Department of Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies Education
Specialties: Curriculum studies and social studies education; Black communities and diasporic relationships in/through education; teacher development and reflective practice; culturally sustaining mentorship practices in academia; decolonizing and antiracist approaches in formal and informal schooling; arts-informed qualitative research practices
Before UGA: Before joining UGA, Charlemagne spent 11 years teaching middle school and serving in other curriculum capacities. She served as a social studies and writing instructor across public, public-charter, and independent school settings, and as a curriculum advisor with Yale University’s Exploration Summer Programs.
Isabelle Crowder
Terminal degree: Ph.D. ’11 in educational psychology with a concentration in gifted and creative education, University of Georgia
Job title and department: Limited-term clinical assistant professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Special Education
Specialties: Special education; gifted and creative education; differentiated instruction; collaboration and co-teaching; teacher preparation; quality online instruction
Before UGA: Prior to UGA, Crowder served as an associate professor in the Department of Exceptional Child Education at Piedmont University. After 10 years in higher education, Crowder spent the last four years as a teacher of gifted education at a public elementary school in Athens, teaching fourth- and fifth-grade students across content areas in both general education and resource settings. During this time, she also served as an adjunct professor in the College’s gifted and creative education graduate program.
Guher Gorgun
Terminal degree: Ph.D. ’24 in measurement, evaluation, and data science, University of Alberta
Job title and department: Assistant professor, Department of Educational Psychology
Specialties: Measurement; psychometrics; large-language models; learner modeling and learning analytics; data mining; artificial intelligence in education; digital assessments; automatic item generation and evaluation
Before UGA: Gorgun was a postdoctoral researcher in digital education at Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education and Europa-Universität Flensburg in Germany and worked as a psychometrician at the Education Quality and Accountability Office in Ontario, Canada.
Talbot Hook
Terminal degree: Ph.D. ’25 in educational psychology with an emphasis in giftedness, creativity, and talent development, University of Connecticut
Job title and department: Clinical assistant professor, Department of Educational Psychology
Specialties: Gifted education; conceptual issues in giftedness and talent development; technology pedagogy; research-to-practice gap
Before UGA: Prior to joining UGA and his doctoral studies at UConn, Hook worked at a rural school in Iowa teaching classes in English as a second language, Spanish, and technology.
Danielle McArdle
Terminal degree: Ph.D. ’25 in management, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Job title and department: Lecturer, Department of Kinesiology
Specialties: AR/VR in the classroom; role identification in women’s sport fandom; social issues in sport
Before UGA: Prior to her academic career, McArdle worked in the sport industry as a workforce administrative manager for Copa América Centenario and as the coordinator of corporate partnerships for the NWHL, a forerunner of the Professional Women’s Hockey League.
Claire Miller
Terminal degree: Ph.D. ’24 in mathematics education, University of Georgia
Job title and department: Assistant professor, Department of Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies Education
Specialties: Statistics education; mathematics education; student learning and cognition
Before UGA: Before joining the Mary Frances Early College of Education faculty, Miller was a limited-term lecturer in the Department of Statistics at the University of Georgia. Prior to her doctoral studies, Miller spent 11 years teaching mathematics and statistics at the high school level.
Bob Oberholzer
Terminal degree: Ph.D. ’24 in educational psychology with a focus in school psychology, University of Georgia
Job title and department: Limited-term clinical assistant professor, Department of Educational Psychology
Specialties: Shy-anxiousness; social withdrawal; perceptions of the self; likability; popularity; social agency
Before UGA: Prior to coming to UGA, Oberholzer worked as a school psychologist for Gwinnett County Public Schools.
Kelly Potteiger
Terminal degree: Ph.D. ’12 in athletic training, Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions
Job title and department: Clinical professor and athletic training program coordinator, Department of Kinesiology
Specialties: Qualitative research methods; athletic training education; health equity
Before UGA: Potteiger was a professor of athletic training at North Park University in Chicago, Illinois.
Sara Snyder
Terminal degree: Ph.D. ’23 in special education with an emphasis in applied behavior analysis, University of Georgia
Job title and department: Assistant research scientist, Department of Communication Sciences and Special Education, Center for Autism and Behavioral Education Research (CABER)
Specialties: Applied behavior analysis; early childhood special education; early intervention for children with autism and intellectual disabilities in clinical and school-based settings; assessment and treatment of challenging behavior in special education classrooms
Before UGA: Snyder has been at UGA since her undergraduate degree program. Previously, she worked as a behavior analyst with CABER on campus as both a graduate student and post-doctoral associate.
Henry Wear
Terminal degree: Ph.D. ’17 in sport and entertainment management, University of South Carolina
Job title and department: Assistant professor, Department of Kinesiology
Specialties: Sport marketing; sport brands, brand management, brand communication; sport fan development, fan communities; sport fan behavior; sport betting and gambling
Before UGA: Wear was an assistant professor of sports communication in the School of Journalism and Communication and undergraduate curriculum director of the Sport and Wellness Initiative at the University of Oregon. Prior, he was an assistant professor of sport management in the College of Business and Law’s Department of Management and graduate program co-coordinator of the sport management program at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia.
Shijun Yan
Terminal degree: Ph.D. ’20 in kinesiology, Louisiana State University
Job title and department: Assistant professor, Department of Kinesiology
Specialties: Identifying neuromuscular mechanisms responsible for impaired motor control and learning in individuals with neurological diseases (e.g. children with cerebral palsy, patients post-stroke, patients with spinal cord injury); improving walking function and balance in individuals with neurological diseases using robotic intervention; investigating the relationship between visual perception and motor control
Before UGA: From 2020-25, Yan was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (formerly the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago) and Northwestern University.