Cynthia R. Hancock, PhD, FAGHE

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Term: 2023-2025

University Of North Carolina At Charlotte

9201 University City Blvd.
Charlotte, NC 28223
Direct Line: 704-687-7807
Email: chancock@uncc.edu

Cynthia Hancock, PhD is a Teaching Professor in the Department of Sociology at UNC Charlotte where she also serves as the Interim Director and Undergraduate Coordinator for the Gerontology program. She has a BS from Shepherd College, and MA and PhD from UNC Chapel Hill – all in Sociology. Hancock joined SPO in 2006 with the Gamma Psi Chapter where she serves as the advisor. She has received both the part-time and full-time lecturer awards for excellence in teaching from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UNC Charlotte where she has taught Aging and the Life Course, Families and Aging, Aging and the Life Course through Film, Sociology of Aging, Gerontology Senior Seminar, and Graduate Research Methods. She has also been recognized by AGHE with the 2014 Distinguished Faculty Award and in 2017 as an AGHE Fellow.

Hancock’s interests are in experiential learning, the impact of word choice, and the utilization of films to teach about aging. She has received internal grants to support increasing diversity and choice in the service learning experience at UNC Charlotte and was among the first at UNC Charlotte to have a course receive formal service-learning designation.