As Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Professor Jeanette Taylor assists with all matters of academic administration, policy and planning, and acts on behalf of the Provost when he is not available. She also chairs the UGA Arts Council and oversees the Georgia Museum of Art, McBee Institute for Higher Education, and the Performing Arts Center. With the Dean and Director of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, she jointly oversees the UGA Griffin campus.

 

Professor Taylor’s academic home is in the Department of Psychology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. Prior to joining UGA, Professor Taylor was serving as an associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at Florida State University. She served for six years as the chair of the Department of Psychology before her role as an associate dean.

 

Professor Taylor is a clinical psychologist and has an international reputation for her work examining factors that relate to the development and comorbidity of substance use disorders and personality disorders. She has examined psychophysiological factors as well as personality traits and environmental factors in her work. She held funding from the National Institutes of Health for 15 years to support the creation of the Florida State Twin Registry. This registry helped to facilitate her work examining genetic and environmental influences on behavior problems, personality, and reading difficulties in children and adolescents. 

 

Her honors include being elected as a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and selected as a Fellow of the Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Leadership Network. She has served the profession as an associate editor of the Journal of Social & Clinical Psychology, as an ad hoc reviewer for two dozen journals, and as an ad hoc reviewer for federal and private grants.   

Dr. Kristi Logan started as a full-time Lecturer for the University of Georgia in Fall of 2022. This past fall semester, Dr. Logan taught a wide array of undergraduate psychology courses: Research methods, research analysis, psychological testing, and psychology of the workplace. 

Previously Dr. Logan has worked as a consultant for Personnel Decisions Research Institutes. She worked on several military contracts. Projects included developing selection measures and team performance measures for Air Force Aircrews and measuring adaptability in the Army. Corporate projects included developing situational judgement tests (SJTs) for financial advisors and insurance agents. More recently Dr. Logan has worked in academic settings. She taught Business Analytics for the Harbert College of Business at Auburn University. Dr. Logan was also an adjunct faculty member for Park University’s online I-O master’s program where she developed the regression course. She transitioned to the role of interim Program Director for the MAIO program. She has also been an adjunct faculty member for Wesleyan College. 

Dr. Logan graduated from the University of Minnesota with a MA and PhD in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. She earned her undergraduate degree in Psychology from Creighton University. She is a member of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). She is an active member of the Education and Training’s Online subcommittee which is dedicated to providing resources for graduate students, especially those in online and hybrid I-O master’s and PhD programs. 

Dr. Logan is married and has two children. Her daughter recently graduated from Middle Tennessee State University and her son is currently a student at the University of Alabama.