About
Dr. Hendrix is a postsecondary educator with over 30 years of experience teaching undergraduate and graduate-level classes, and training graduate students, adjunct faculty, and junior faculty to teach college classes. Her career began within the community college system in California. After earning her Ph.D. at the University of Washington, Dr. Hendrix transitioned to university level teaching and research. She is an instructional communication scholar with a broad teaching range including argumentation, public speaking, listening, interpersonal and intercultural communication, conflict resolution, and qualitative research methods.
Dr. Hendrix earned numerous national, regional, and campus awards for her teaching, research, and service including the Southern States Communication Association (SSCA) Rose B. Johnson Award for Best Article and the highest award accorded by the National Communication Association (NCA) – the 2023 Distinguished Scholar Award. The Southern States Communication Association (SSCA) acknowledges her impact on instructional research by awarding an annual Instructional Development Division (IDD) Hendrix Research Award.
At the University of Memphis, she was a recipient of the Benjamin Rawlins, Jr. Meritorious Professorship. In August 2022, Dr. Hendrix retired from her duties as a Professor in the Communication and Film Department where she was then granted the status of Professor Emerita. Dr. Hendrix is married with two adult children and one grandchild. She loves dogs, tending to indoor house plants, and gardening in the yard; especially roses. Her future plans included taking photography classes and joining a literary league teaching adults to read.
Exemplary Publications
Wilson, C. T., Hendrix, K. G., Knox, B. A., & London, A. F. (2024). Ascending, summiting, and descending: The academic career mountain of senior faculty members at postsecondary U.S. institutions. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 55(6), 584–594. https://doi-org.ezproxy.memphis.edu/10.1037/pro0000585
Hendrix, K. G. (2020). Disrupting institutional erasure: Organizational exit, remembrance, value, and the need to matter. Gender, Work, and Organizations, 28:4, 1323-1336. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12609
Hendrix, K. G. (2020). The Lone Ranger, Tonto, and Katherine: What’s the script for a senior faculty member? Qualitative Inquiry, 26, 379-387. doi.org/10.1177/1077800419838588
Hendrix, K. G., & Hebbani, A. (Eds). (2014). Hidden roads: Nonnative English-speaking international professors in the classroom. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 138, San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Hendrix, K. G., & Wilson, C. (2014). Virtual invisibility: Race and Communication Education Communication Education, 63, 405-428. {Special 100th National Communication Association (NCA) issue.}
Hendrix, K. G., Hebbani, A., & Johnson, O. (2007). The “Other” TA: An exploratory investigation of graduate teaching assistants of color (GTACs). In B. J. Allen, L. A. Flores, & M. P. Orbe (Eds.). International and Intercultural Communication Annual: Communication Within/Across Organizations (pp. 51-82). Washington, D.C.: National Communication Association.
Hendrix, K. G. (2002). Did being Black introduce bias into your study?: Attempting to mute the race-related research of Black scholars. Howard Journal of Communications, 13, 153-171.
Hendrix, K. G. (2001). "Mama told me . . . ": Exploring childhood lessons that laid a foundation for my endarkened epistemology. Qualitative Inquiry, 7, 559-577.