RYAN D. TALBERT Department of Sociology | Vanderbilt University PMB 351811 | Nashville, TN 37235-1811
[email protected] | (980) 621-4321 _____________________________________________________________________________________ EDUCATION 2020 (exp.) PhD, Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Dissertation: “Racial Disparities in Physical and Mental Health: The Roles of White Supremacist Organizing, Public Confederate Monuments, and Exposure to Fatal Police Encounters” Committee: C. André Christie-Mizell (Chair), Evelyn J. Patterson, Larry W. Isaac, Hector F. Myers, and David Cunningham (Washington University in St. Louis) Doctoral Exams: Medical Sociology and Mental Health; Race, Class, Gender 2015 MA, Department of Sociology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC Thesis: “Perceptions of the Confederate Flag: The Impacts of Social Class and Sub-regional Differences” Committee: Mamadi Corra (Chair), Melinda D. Kane, A.J. Jacobs, and Anthony Papalas 2013 BA, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Health Disparities Race and Ethnicity Punishment and Inequality Sociology of Mental Health PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS Christie-Mizell, C. André, Ryan D. Talbert, Ashleigh R. Hope, Cleothia G. Frazier, and Brittany N. Hearne. 2019. “Depression and African Americans in the First Decade of Midlife: The Consequences of Social Roles and Gender.” Journal of the National Medical Association 111(3):285–295. Talbert, Ryan D. 2017. “Culture and the Confederate Flag: Attitudes toward a Divisive Symbol.” Sociology Compass 11(2):1–10.* *One of the journal’s top 20 most downloaded papers from July 2016–June 2018. MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW Patterson, Evelyn J., Ryan D. Talbert, and Tony N. Brown. “Familial Incarceration, Social Roles, and Mental Health among African American Women.” Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Marriage and Family.