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Overview

  • I am an Associate Professor in Recreation Management and Policy at the University of New Hampshire.

    My research focuses on the relationship between identity development and free-time experiences and pursuits (e.g., including organized recreation programming, informal learning, leisure pursuits) across major developmental transitions during late adolescence, emerging adulthood, and young adulthood. I seek to understand how youth and young adults plan for their futures and pursue lives of meaning through educational, career, family, and recreational pursuits while incorporating and balancing societal and cultural influences about who to be and how to live. In other words, I seek to understand how individuals manage autonomy (freedom from constraints vs. freedom to flourish) while maintaining connection across the lifespan. By using psychosocial and narrative approaches to understand identity development, my ultimate goal is to support individuals in their identity processes and create potential for positive identity outcomes, including future orientation, well-being, and life satisfaction. I seek to work with youth-serving educational, workforce organizations, and recreation/wellness programs to improve programs and services for young people at these important life transitions.

    My specific research aims include:
    • Utilizing and promoting psychosocial and narrative identity models/theories in research on free-time experiences and pursuits (e.g., including organized recreation programming, informal learning, leisure pursuits)
    • Understand balancing free-time experiences and pursuits with academic, work, and family identities
    • Develop and promote free-time experiences and pursuits to support identity development and subsequent future orientation, well-being, and life satisfaction
  • Teaching Activities

  • Concepts Recreation & Leisure Taught course
  • Leadership in Recreation Taught course
  • Leadership in Recreation Taught course
  • Research and Evaluation Taught course
  • Teaching Practicum Taught course
  • Youth Culture and Programs Taught course 2023
  • Concepts Recreation & Leisure Taught course 2022
  • Leadership in Recreation Taught course 2022
  • Senior Honors Project Taught course 2022
  • Independent Study Taught course 2022
  • Leadership in Recreation Taught course 2022
  • Youth Culture and Programs Taught course 2022
  • Independent Study Taught course 2021
  • Recreation & Event Leadership Taught course 2021
  • Teaching Practicum Taught course 2021
  • Youth Culture and Programs Taught course 2021
  • Grantsmanship, Eval & Research Taught course 2020
  • Independent Study Taught course 2020
  • Recreation & Event Leadership Taught course 2020
  • Grantsmanship, Eval & Research Taught course 2020
  • Independent Study Taught course 2020
  • Recreation & Event Leadership Taught course 2020
  • Independent Study Taught course 2019
  • Recreation & Event Leadership Taught course 2019
  • Teaching Practicum Taught course 2019
  • Youth Culture and Programs Taught course 2019
  • Internship Taught course 2019
  • Independent Study Taught course 2019
  • Grantsmanship, Eval & Research Taught course 2019
  • Recreation & Event Leadership Taught course 2019
  • Independent Study Taught course 2018
  • Recreation & Event Leadership Taught course 2018
  • Youth Culture and Programs Taught course 2018
  • Independent Study Taught course 2018
  • Recreation & Event Leadership Taught course 2018
  • Recreation & Event Leadership Taught course 2018
  • Grantsmanship, Eval & Research Taught course 2017
  • Youth Culture and Programs Taught course 2017
  • Independent Study Taught course 2017
  • Recreation & Event Leadership Taught course 2017
  • Festival and Event Planning Taught course 2016
  • Independent Study Taught course 2016
  • Youth Culture and Programs Taught course 2016
  • Recreation & Event Leadership Taught course 2016
  • Festival and Event Planning Taught course 2015
  • Youth Culture and Programs Taught course 2015
  • Education And Training

  • B.S., Texas A & M University
  • M.S. ParksRecreationLeisureFaciMgmt, Clemson University
  • Ph.D., Clemson University
  • Full Name

  • Cindy Hartman