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Curriculum Vitae<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Ardelt CV<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Education<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
  • 1994\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ph.D. Department of Sociology, UNC-CH. Dissertation:\u00a0Wisdom in the Later Years: A Life Course Approach to Successful Aging.<\/i><\/li>\n
  • 1987\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Diploma. Department of Sociology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University of Frankfurt\/Main (Germany). Thesis:\u00a0Die Representativit\u00e4t von Umfragedaten –\u00a0 dargestellt anhand des Vergleichs dreier Jugendstudien (The Representativeness of Survey Data.\u00a0 A Comparison of Three Youth Studies).<\/i><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Grants\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
    • Collaborator (PI: Michel Ferrari, Ph.D., University of Toronto): \u201cWise life management among Iranian immigrants and Syrian refugees\u201d funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Amount: $197,055; Dates: March 2018 \u2013 March 2024.<\/li>\n
    • Co-Investigator (PI: Michel Ferrari, Ph.D., University of Toronto):\u00a0Motivating the Self to Virtue in Western and non-Western Countries: Does Nation or Faith Matter More?<\/em> Funded by \u201cThe Self, Motivation, and Virtue Project\u201d funded by the Templeton Foundation Religion Trust. Amount: $189,995. Dates: September 1, 2015 \u2013 December 31, 2017.<\/li>\n
    • Co-Investigator (PI: Michel Ferrari, Ph.D., University of Toronto). A Cross-Cultural Study of Wisdom<\/em>. Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Amount: $74,493. Dates:\u00a0June 2007 \u2013 April 2010.<\/li>\n
    • Co-Investigator:\u00a0Spirituality and Living Well<\/i>. Funded by the Templeton Positive Psychology Fellowship Program. Amount: $14,000 plus travel expenses to the\u00a0Positive\u00a0Psychology\u00a0Center in\u00a0Philadelphia for the Medici II meetings from May 15-July 1, 2005. Dates: May 15, 2005-May 14, 2006.<\/li>\n
    • Principal Investigator:\u00a0Aging and Dying Well\u00a0 Similarities and Differences.<\/i> Funded by the Brookdale Foundation and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Department of Sociology at the University of Florida. Amount: $126,260; Dates: July 1999-June 2001.<\/li>\n
    • Principal Investigator:\u00a0Empirical Assessment of a Three-Dimensional Wisdom Scale.<\/i> Funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute on Aging (1R03AG14855-01). Amount: $47,187; Dates: August 1997-December 1999.<\/li>\n
    • Principal Investigator:\u00a0Empirical Assessment of a Three-Dimensional Wisdom Scale<\/i>. Funded by the CLAS Research Initiation Project of the University of Florida.\u00a0 Amount: $11,452; Dates: Summer 1997.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      Selected Honors and Professional Activities<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
      • 2002-present\u00a0 \u00a0 Founding\u00a0 Faculty Member and Member of Advisory Committee, University of Florida Center for Spirituality and Health.<\/li>\n
      • 2021-present\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Member of the Advisory Board, Centre for Wisdom in Leadership, Mumbai, India.<\/li>\n
      • 2013-2023\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Executive Secretary, Society for the Study of Human Development (SSHD).<\/li>\n
      • 2021\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Pat Primeaux Best Paper Award for \u201cThe Benefits of Wise Organizations for Employee Well-Being\u201d (Monika Ardelt and Bhavna Sharma) at the International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference, DePaul University, Chicago, IL (online), October 21-23, 2021.<\/li>\n
      • 2016-2018\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Chair, Gerontological Society of America (GSA) Humanities and the Arts Committee.<\/li>\n
      • 2016-2019\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0University of Florida Term Professorship.<\/li>\n
      • 2016\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Listed in Marquis Who\u2019s Who in America, 70th<\/sup> Platinum Anniversary Edition.<\/li>\n
      • 2013\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Listed in Marquis Who\u2019s Who in the World, 30th<\/sup> Pearl Anniversary Edition.<\/li>\n
      • 2010 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America<\/li>\n
      • 2008\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Colonel Allan R. and Margaret G. Crow Term Professor<\/li>\n
      • 2005\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Templeton Positive Psychology Fellowship Award.<\/li>\n
      • 1999-2002\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Member of the Spirituality and Health Group Advisory Board, University of Florida.<\/li>\n
      • 1999\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Brookdale National Fellowship Award.<\/li>\n
      • 1994\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Distinguished Graduate Student Howard W. Odum Award. Department of Sociology, UNC-CH.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1195,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ardelt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ardelt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ardelt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ardelt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ardelt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ardelt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ardelt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ardelt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}