{"id":5,"date":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T22:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/template-faculty01\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2021-08-13T16:08:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T16:08:01","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/cynthia-hancock\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"235\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/cynthia-hancock\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/408\/2019\/10\/CJRH-headshot2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><strong>Education<\/strong><br \/>PhD in Sociology from UNC Chapel Hill<\/p>\n<p><strong>Current Position<\/strong><br \/>Teaching Professor, Department of Sociology and Director, Gerontology Program.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Teaching Awards<br \/><\/strong>I received the part-time lecturer (2006) and full-time lecturer (2010) UNC Charlotte College of Liberal Arts and Sciences teaching awards as well as the national Association for Gerontology in Higher Education Distinguished Faculty Award (2014).\u00a0 I am a Fellow of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, the Southern Gerontological Society, and Sigma Phi Omega &#8211; the International Honor and Professional Society in Gerontology.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interests<br \/><\/strong>My interests are in community-based experiential learning, making gerontology relevant to undergraduates and graduate students, and how we use language in our understanding of and work with older adults.\u00a0 I currently teach Aging and the Lifecourse, Families and Aging, Sociology of Aging, and Gerontology Senior Seminar.\u00a0 I have published in <i>Gerontology and Geriatrics Education<\/i> and regularly present at the Academy for Gerontology in Higher Education and the Southern Gerontological Society meetings.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EducationPhD in Sociology from UNC Chapel Hill Current PositionTeaching Professor, Department of Sociology and Director, Gerontology Program. Teaching AwardsI received the part-time lecturer (2006) and full-time lecturer (2010) UNC Charlotte College of Liberal Arts and Sciences teaching awards as well as the national Association for Gerontology in Higher Education Distinguished Faculty Award (2014).\u00a0 I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3fZiS-5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/cynthia-hancock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/cynthia-hancock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/cynthia-hancock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/cynthia-hancock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/cynthia-hancock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/cynthia-hancock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/cynthia-hancock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/cynthia-hancock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}