Monika Ardelt

Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator, Sociology
Ph.D. Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1994

Areas of Interest: Human Development, Aging and the Life Course

Office: 3350 Turlington
Mailing Address: PO Box 117330, Gainesville, FL 32611-7330
Voice: (352) 392-0251 ext: 247
FAX: (352) 392-6568
E-mail: ardelt@soc.ufl.edu
Individual Web Page: http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/ardelt/

Monika Ardelt is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Florida. She is also a Founding Faculty Member and Member of the Advisory Committee of the Center for Spirituality and Health at the University of Florida. Dr. Ardelt received her Diploma (M.A.) in Sociology from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University of Frankfurt/Main in Germany and her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1997, she was awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute on Aging to develop and assess the empirical validity and reliability of a three-dimensional wisdom scale. In 1999, she was elected as a Brookdale National Fellow to study the similarities and differences between aging and dying well. Dr. Ardelt’s research focuses on successful human development across the life course with particular emphasis on the relations between wisdom, spirituality, aging well, and dying well. Dr. Ardelt has been published in several professional journals, such as Journals of Gerontology, Social Psychology Quarterly, Social Forces, Research on Aging, Journal of Aging Studies, and Journal of Religious Gerontology.