Cynthia Hancock

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Office: Fretwell 460F
Phone: 704.687.7807
Email: chancock@uncc.edu
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chancockEducation
PhD in Sociology from UNC Chapel Hill

Current Position
I am a Teaching Professor in the Department of Sociology.  I also serve as the Interim Director and Undergraduate Coordinator for the Gerontology Program.

Teaching Awards
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).  I am an AGHE Fellow.  I was promoted to Teaching Professor, the highest rank in the lecturer track, in the spring of 2016.

Interests
My interests are in intergenerational service-learning, aging, making gerontology relevant to undergraduates, and how we use language in our understanding of and work with older adults.  I currently teach Aging and the Lifecourse, Families and Aging, Sociology of Aging, and Gerontology Senior Seminar.  I have published in Gerontology and Geriatrics Education and regularly present at the Academy for Gerontology in Higher Education and the Southern Gerontological Society meetings.