Area of Interest:

Gender and health; the anthropology of childbirth; the ethnography of organizations; health care professions; qualitative methods.

Education:

Fulbright Student Researcher (2008/2009)

Home Universities:

            University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, the Czech Republic (a lecturer)

            Masaryk University in Brno, the Czech Republic (Ph.D. student)

Educational background:

Master degree in social and cultural anthropology

Currently involved in Ph.D. program in sociology

Selected Publications:

Hrešanová, Ema and Jaroslava Hasmanová Marhánková. 2008. „Nové trendy v českém porodnictví a sociální nerovnosti mezi rodičkami.“ [„New Trends in the Czech Birthing System and Emerging Social Inequalities among Birthing Women“] Sociologický časopis/ Czech Sociological Review  44(1): 87-112.

Hrešanová Ema. 2007. “Midwives, Women, and the Professionalization of Midwifery: An Ethnographic Study of Two Maternity hospitals in the Czech Republic”. Cogniţie, Creier, Comportament/ Cognition, Brain, Behavior 11(2): 371 – 396.

Hrešanová, Ema. 2004. “Profesionalizace antropologie a etické instituce”. [Professionalisation of anthropology and the role of ethical institutions] Biograf 35: 127- 146.