UConn Center on Aging invites you to attend our next seminar on aging research:
"Incarceration Exposure, Race-Ethnicity, and Inflammatory and Immunological Biomarkers among U.S. Adults"
Guest Speakers:
Ryan D. Talbert, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
University of Connecticut
Dehjah Drye
Honors Student
Diagnostic Genetic Sciences & Sociology programs
University of Connecticut
Details:
Monday, September 21 at 12:00-1:00pm
Center on Aging Conference Room (ASB 2nd Floor)
Teams meeting info:
Teams Meeting Link
Meeting ID: 254 786 539 982 276
Passcode: Pj6fc2z2
Brief biographies:
Ryan D. Talbert is an Associate Professor of Sociology; faculty affiliate of the Africana Studies Institute and the Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy at the University of Connecticut; and leads the Health Equity Lab. He specializes in health disparities, race and racism, and punishment and inequality. A primary goal of his work is to examine critically how extensions of white supremacy and systemic racism shape and maintain racial health disparities. His scholarship has been published in journals such as the Journal of Marriage and Family, Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, and Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, and has been covered in outlets such as NBCBLK, ASA News, and The Sentencing Project. Ryan received the Office of Undergraduate Research’s 2024 Mentorship Excellence Award; UConn-AAUP’s 2024 Teaching Excellence Award; CLAS’s 2024 Faculty Mentoring of Graduate Students Award; and the Honors Program’s 2025 Faculty Member of the Year Award.
Dehjah Drye is an honors student in the Diagnostic Genetic Sciences and Sociology programs at the University of Connecticut, and serves as Research Associate in the Health Equity Lab. Her research focuses on social stress, epigenetic aging, and the molecular underpinnings of chronic disease at the intersection of race, gender, and the criminal legal system. She has presented her work at the meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society, Mid-Atlantic Social Research Conference, and Office of Diversity and Inclusion’s Health Disparities Exhibition. Dehjah’s work has been recognized with a Best Research Poster Award and has been funded by UConn’s Department of Sociology; Office of Undergraduate Research; and Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy.
For more information, contact: Laura Masi at masi@uchc.edu