Dorothy Carter, Ph.D.

Associate PROFESSOR
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA

Dr. Dorothy R. Carter is an Assistant Professor in the Industrial/Organizational Psychology program at the University of Georgia and Director of the UGA Leadership, Innovation, Networks, and Collaboration (LINC) Laboratory. Her research seeks to uncover the factors that enable teams and larger collectives to tackle complex challenges in contexts such as corporate organizations, the military, medicine, scientific collaboration, and long-duration space exploration. Dr. Carter's current research projects are supported by funding from the National Aeronautical and Space Agency (NASA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Army Research Institute (ARI), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Her research on leadership and teams has appeared in outlets such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, American Psychologist, The Leadership Quarterly, and Group and Organization Management. She is the winner of the 2017 Alvah H. Chapman Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Center for Leadership at Florida International University and the Academy of Management’s Network of Leadership Scholars and the 2019 “Rising Star” Award in the field of Leadership Research by the Exeter Centre for Leadership and the Network of Leadership Scholars. She holds an M.S. and Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology and serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Applied Psychology and Journal of Management.