Dr. Charles F. Longino, Jr., is Wake Forest Professor of Sociology and Director of the Reynolda Gerontology Program at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is also Professor of Public Health Sciences the Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

Longino taught at the University of Miami and the Universities of Kansas, Virginia, and North Carolina, earlier in his career. In 1967, he received a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and in the mid-1970s he was a post-doctoral fellow in the Midwest Council for Social Research in Aging.

He is a fellow and former officer of the Gerontological Society of America, and was North American chair of the International Association of Gerontology from 1989-1993. He is current editor of the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences. He is a founding fellow of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, as well as the current President with his term of office being 2002 – 2004. He served as chair of the Section on Aging and the Life Course of the American Sociological Association, and is Past President for the Southern Gerontological Society.

He currently serves as editor of the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences.

Longino has authored or co-authored over 110 refereed journal articles, 65 chapters or encyclopedia entries, and 15 books, monographs, or compendia. He is an authority on retirement migration in America, and has lectured widely both throughout the United States and internationally.