Education:
Ph.D., Washington University in Saint Louis - 2010 (Sociocultural Anthropology)
Areas of Expertise:
Hejtmanek investigates the ideologies and practices that encourage self transformation in various social contexts. She is currently investigating how branded functional fitness regimens and frameworks shape individual experiences of self and body, and how branded functional fitness is shaped by social context. Hejtmanek has also studied various healing frameworks, including hip hop and psychiatric, in youth psychiatric custody in the United States.
Books and Publications
Friendship, Love, and Hip Hop: An Ethnography of African American Men in Psychiatric Custody. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/friendship-love-and-hip-hop-katie-rose-hejtmanek/?isb=9781137544728 (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2015
"Practicing and Resisting Constraint: Ethnography of 'Counter Response' in American Adolescent Psychiatric Custody." Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 38.4: 578-96. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2014
"Residential Treatment." Mental Health Issues in America. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO (Praeger and Greenwood Press). (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2012
"Caring Through Restraint: Violence, Intimacy and Identity in Mental Health Practice." Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 34: 668-74. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2010
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
PSC-CUNY Research Grant. (Grants and Fellowships) 2015
PSC-CUNY Research Grant. (Grants and Fellowships) 2013
Whiting Foundation Fellowship, for teaching excellence. (Awards and Honors) 2013
PSC-CUNY Award. (Grants and Fellowships) 2011
National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology, Dissertation Improvement Grant. (Grants and Fellowships) 2007
Orenstein-Schlesinger Student Award, Center for the Study of Ethics and Human Values, Washington University. (Grants and Fellowships) 2005
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"'You Gotta Do You': Racial Sincerity, Mental Health Treatment, and Institutionalized African American Youth." Behavioral Science Senior Seminar: Mental Illness Across Cultural Divides. Drew University. Madison, N.J., Feb. 22. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
"'Because of My Anger': Narrating the Self in an Adolescent Total Institution." Society for Psychological Anthropology Biennial Meetings. Santa Monica, Calif., March 31 - April 2. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
"'If You Want a Hug, Ask for a Hug, I Will Give You a Gug': Toward an Understanding of Intimacy Through Touch for Institutionalized Youth." American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings. Montreal, Nov. 16-20. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
"Caring With Restraint: The Work of Line Staff in an American Residential Treatment Center." American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings. Philadelphia, Dec. 2-6. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
"Grappling Through and Failing: The Self-Transformation Process in an American Residential Treatment Center." Society for Psychological Anthropology Biennial Meetings. Asilomar, Calif., March 27-29. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009
"Getting Out and Getting Better: Ways Adolescent State Wards Negotiate Their Self Concept in Residential Treatment." American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings. San Francisco, Nov. 22. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
"Masculinity Theory in Africa: Case Study 'The Arrow Boys.'" American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings. Washington, D.C., Dec. 2. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2005
"Vulnerable Masculinities: Conceptualizing Manhood, Youth, and Violence." Southern Illinois University Spring Colloquium: Thinking About Masculinity. Edwardsville, Ill., April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2005
