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Ryon J. Cobb, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Georgia and a KL2 Scholar at the Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Association.

Ryon graduated from Florida State University with a Ph.D. in sociology in 2013. After completing his doctoral degree, he joined Postdoctoral Scholar at the Roybal Institute on Aging and the USC/UCLA Center for Biodemography and Population Health.

He is an award-winning scholar of ethnoracial identification, religion, and the health implications of socially oppressive systems among adults in the United States. His peer-reviewed articles and other publications appear in high-impact interdisciplinary outlets such as Ethnic and Racial Studies, the Journals of Gerontology: Series A, and the Sociology of Religion. He also disseminates his research findings at inter/national meetings and via expert panels sponsored by the Ford Foundation and Smithsonian Institute.