Dr. Hewitt's core interest is in mind-body connection. Her interests include the history of psychiatry, drug policy, psychedelic studies, postwar culture in the US, consciousness studies and learning theories.

Degrees

  • Ph.D. in American Civilization from University of Texas at Austin

Publications

  • Dr, Hewitt has published on the significance of body modification in American culture (Mutilating the Body: Identity in Blood and Ink), teaching mental illness, the psychedelic sensorium, the history of psychedelic substances in pharmacology and intersections between feminism and psychedelic studies.