Kendra G. Hotz is the Robert R. Waller Chair of Population Health at Rhodes College where she also serves as the inaugural director of the Institute for Health Equity and Community Justice and as founding chair of the Health Equity Program. Hotz is a Faculty-in-Residence at The Center for Bioethics and Health Equity at LeBonheur Children’s Hospital and is currently completing a yearlong certification in pediatric bioethics at the Center for Bioethics at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City.
Dr. Hotz’s research and teaching focus on the relationship between social inequalities and health, health humanities, and ethics.
Her courses include:
- HLEQ 510, Health Equity and Health Disparities
- HLEQ 520, Developing Cultural Humility
- HLEQ 430, Narrative Medicine and Inequality
- AFS 350, Race Thinking and Health Disparities
- RELS 101, The Bible and Medicine
- RELS 102, The Bible and Black Lives Matter
- RELS 232, Faith, Health, and Justice
Dr. Hotz is the co-author of four books and a dozen articles and chapters. Her published works include:
- “Novel Integration of a Health Equity Immersion Course in Medical Training,” Kendra G. Hotz, Allison Silverstein, Austin Dalgo. The Journal of Medical Humanities (forthcoming)
- Dust and Breath: Faith, Health, and Why the Church Should Care about Both (Eerdmans)
- Transforming Care: A Christian Vision of Nursing Practice (Eerdmans)
- What Do Our Neighbors Believe: Questions and Answers from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Westminster John Knox)
- Shaping the Christian Life: Worship and the Religious Affections (Westminster John Knox)
- “Big Momma Had Sugar, Imma Have it Too: Medical Fatalism and the Language of Faith among African American Women in Memphis” (Journal of Religion and Health 53:5)
- “I Can Do For Me: Race, Health, and the Rhetoric of Self-Love and Suffering” (Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric 5:2)
- “Happily Ever After: Christians Without Children” (in Encountering the Sacred, T&T Clark)
Dr. Hotz is an avid transportation cyclist who lives in downtown Memphis with her spouse Matt and their dog Argos.
Education
M.Div. Candler School of Theology at Emory University (1994)
B.A. University of Evansville (1991)
