{"id":8,"date":"2013-09-03T14:04:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T14:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/caravelis\/faculty-name\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T16:26:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T20:26:22","slug":"faculty-name","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/caravelis\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Cyndy Caravelis Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\"><div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_3 et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_team_member_0 et_pb_team_member et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_flex_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_team_member_image et-waypoint et_pb_animation_off\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/caravelis\/files\/2013\/09\/paris.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Cyndy Caravelis Hughes\" width=\"1129\" height=\"1911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/caravelis\/files\/2013\/09\/paris.jpg 1129w, https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/caravelis\/files\/2013\/09\/paris-177x300.jpg 177w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1129px) 100vw, 1129px\" class=\"wp-image-15\" \/><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_team_member_description\"><h4 class=\"et_pb_module_header\">Dr. Cyndy Caravelis Hughes<\/h4><p class=\"et_pb_member_position\">Assistant Professor<\/p><div class=\"et_pb_team_member_description_content\"><p>Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice<br \/>\n410-N Belk<br \/>\n227-2165<br \/>\ncaravelis@wcu.edu<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_column_1 et_pb_column et_pb_column_2_3 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module et_pb_text_align_left\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h2>About Me<\/h2>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Dr. Caravelis Hughes' current research interests include examining the relationship between social threat\u00a0and social control, the effect of inequality on crime, social justice\u00a0and the death penalty. In addition to her academic endeavors, Dr. Caravelis Hughes has extensive field experience. Her prior positions include working as a legislative analyst for Florida's Commission on Capital Cases, as a crime intelligence analyst for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and as an academic instructor in both male and female correctional institutions. Dr. Caravelis Hughes subscribes to an experiential learning philosophy and regularly takes students on trips both within the United States and abroad. Most recently, she has taken students to South Africa, England, France and Germany as part of her Social Justice and the Law course. In her free time, she enjoys training for triathlons and traveling around the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/caravelis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/caravelis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/caravelis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/caravelis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/caravelis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/caravelis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/caravelis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/caravelis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}