Erin Kunz, PhD - Bio Sketch

Erin Kunz is an information specialist with the Center for Rural Health (CRH) at the University of North Dakota (UND) School of Medicine & Health Sciences in Grand Forks.

Erin's responsibilities fall under the Rural Health Information Hub (RHIhub), where she identifies and indexes resources to the RHIhub website, provides assistance and resource referrals, and writes and maintains topic and state guides. She also acts as the liaison for the central U.S. for RHIhub. Before joining CRH, Erin was the chair of liberal arts and associate professor of English at Mayville State University.

Originally from Mandan, North Dakota, Erin earned bachelor's and master's degrees in English as well as a PhD in educational foundations and research from UND. Erin has four peer-reviewed publications, the latest in Survive & Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine and is the director of the community nonprofit writing project Voices of the Valley.