William Hartmann

Associate Professor

William Hartmann

Associate Professor

Education

Ph.D. in Psychology (Clinical), August 2016 | University of Michigan, Department of Psychology

Clinical Internship, June 2016 | University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Psychiatry

M.S. in Psychology (Clinical), August 2012 | University of Michigan, Department of Psychology

B.A. in Psychology, August 2008 | Washington & Lee University, Department of Psychology

Courses

  • BIS 270 Abnormal Psychology
  • BIS 312 Approaches to Social Research
  • BIS 369 Indigenous Psychology and Health

Research and Scholarship Interests

I am a clinically-trained community psychologist whose research aims to reflect the stated interests of American Indian and other Indigenous peoples through projects supporting Indigenous mental health and wellness while critiquing systems of oppression. This work sits at the intersections of psychology, mental health, and American Indian and Indigenous studies. Through partnerships with American Indian community organizations, I use various qualitative methods (interviews, focus groups, and ethnography), surveys, and literature review methodologies (systematic, scoping reviews) to 1) better understand local experiences of distress and desires for health and healing to clarify Indigenous peoples’ self-determined health and wellness goals, 2) explore how mental health settings respond to the expressed needs and desires of Indigenous individuals and communities to inform service improvements, and 3) uncover harmful practices in psychology and mental health that undermine the health and wellness of Indigenous peoples and perpetuate injustice in society.

 

Currently, I maintain several active research projects. One involves supporting an inter-tribal Coast Salish organization in developing, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining a novel youth and Elder wellness program called Connecting Generations. Another project attempts to clarify the promise and potential pitfalls of scholarship on Indigenous self-determination in the mental health literature. I am currently co-guest editing a special of Social Science & Medicine- Mental Health on this topic. A third project is a clinical ethnography of an urban American Indian community behavioral health clinic that explores several complexities surrounding how culture and various culture concepts (e.g., cultural competence, culture as tradition) operate in the clinic setting to facilitate and constrain options for delivering therapeutic services. And finally, each year I facilitate a research training experience for undergraduate students at UW Bothell. These experiences connect Bothell students with students, faculty, and staff across the UW, and with local Tribal community members, for research training and community-building experiences related to topics in Indigenous mental health. If you are a student with connections and/or commitments to supporting Native communities and are interested in mental health, please consider emailing me to ask about opportunities to get involved. No prior research experience is required, and be sure to use your university email account when emailing to be sure I receive your message.

(*denotes student mentees)

  • *Walls, J., *Kruger, C., *Sakurai, M., Hartmann, W.E., Fetter, A. K., Wiglesworth, A., Rey, L. F., Azarani, M., Prairie Chicken, M. L., & Gone, J.P. (2025). Representations of Indigeneity in mental health research: A systematic review of American Indian and Alaska Native suicide publications 2010-2020. American Journal of Community Psychology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/ajcp.70012
  • Hartmann, W. E. & Gone, J. P. (2025). Psychological anthropology and Indigenous peoples: Recent ethnographic and Indigenous scholarship on psychosocial wellbeing. In E. Lowe (Ed.) Handbook of Psychological Anthropology. Cambridge [UK]: Cambridge University Press.
  • Hartmann, W. E., & Eccleston, S. M. P. (2024). Elucidating structural barriers to community goals: Two examples of ethnography’s potential contribution to psychology. Qualitative Psychology. doi: 10.1037/qup0000296
  • Hartmann, W. E., St. Arnault, D. M. & Gone, J. P. (2022). Conceptualizing culture in (global) mental health: Lessons from an urban American Indian behavioral health clinic. Social Science & Medicine, 301, 114899-114908. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114899.
  • Hartmann, W. E., Gone, J. P., & St. Arnault, D. M. (2020). Reconsidering rigor in psychological science: Lessons from a brief clinical ethnography. Qualitative Psychology, 7, 169-184. https://doi.org/10.1037/qup0000170
  • Hartmann, W. E., Wendt, D.C., Burrage, R., Pomerville, A., & Gone, J. P. (2019). American Indian historical trauma: Anti-colonial prescriptions for healing, resilience, and survivance. American Psychologist, 74, 6-19. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000326
  • Hartmann, W. E., St. Arnault, D. M., & Gone, J. P. (2018). A return to the clinic for community psychology: Lessons from a clinical ethnography in urban American Indian behavioral health. American Journal of Community Psychology, 61, 62-75.
  • Hartmann, W. E., & Gone, J. P. (2016). Psychological-mindedness & American Indian historical trauma: Interviews with service providers from a Great Plains reservation. American Journal of Community Psychology, 57, 229-242. DOI 10.1002/ajcp.12036.
  • Hartmann, W. E. & Gone, J. P. (2014). American Indian historical trauma: Community perspectives from two Great Plains medicine men. American Journal of Community Psychology, 54, 274-288. DOI: 10.1007/s10464-014-9671-1.
  • Hartmann, W. E., Wendt, D. C., Saftner, M., Marcus, J., & Momper, S. (2014). Advancing community-based research with urban American Indian populations: Multidisciplinary perspectives, American Journal of Community Psychology, 54, 72-80. DOI: 10.1007/s10464-014-9643-5
  • Hartmann, W.E., Kim, E.S., Kim, J.H.J., Nguyen, T.U., Wendt, D.C., Nagata, D.K., & Gone, J.P. (2013). In search of cultural diversity, revisited: Publication trends in ethnic minority and cross-cultural psychology. Review of General Psychology, 17, 243-254. DOI 10.1037/a0032260
  • Hartmann, W.E. & Gone, J.P. (2012). Incorporating traditional healing into an urban Indian health organization: A case study of community member perspectives. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 59, 542-554. DOI 10.1037/a0029067