David Hodge MEd, MTS, DMin, PhD

Dr. David Hodge, is the Associate Director for Education and Associate Professor at the National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care at Tuskegee University, the Senior Associate Editor for the Journal of Healthcare, Science, and Humanities, and the Director of the Bioethics Honors Program. He has written three books, God of Our Silent Tears: Women of the Bible Healing Women of Today, In the Midst of My Tears: The Bible Speaks to Abandonment, Betrayal, Rejection, and Loss, and God of Our Silent Tears a Five-Week Journey. Dr. Hodge is presently in the research and writing stage of two books: Pragmatic Bioethics and Intersectionality: Public Health Ethics, Bioethics and Marginalization (Springer’s Press), and Jesus, Trust and Virtue Ethics: A Philosophical Theology of Trustworthiness (Scholar’s Press).

He came to Tuskegee University from a sister HBCU, Florida Memorial University, where he gave leadership to the religion and philosophy department for almost two decades. In 2016 he moved to Atlanta, Georgia where he served as a part-time professor of philosophy at Georgia State University and as a guest lecturer in Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia. From 2011 to 2016 he taught moral theory and bioethics at Nova Southeastern University and he has taught logic, philosophy, ethics, and religion at St. Thomas University, Barry University, Miami Dade College, and Broward College. His University of Miami Ph.D. dissertation Jesus the Virtue Ethicist: A Meta-ethical Anticipation of Moral Sentimentalism, Empathy, and Care has had a significant amount of readership worldwide. Dr. Hodge’s work continues to intersect the role of virtue, empathy, and care in our existential concerns.