Jonathan Metzl
{{Short description|American psychiatrist and author}}
{{Infobox scientist
| honorific_prefix =
| name = Jonathan Metzl
| honorific_suffix =
| native_name =
| native_name_lang =
| image = Jonathan Metzl Ford School 2019.jpg
| image_size =
| image_upright =
| alt =
| caption = Metzl in 2019
| birth_name = Jonathan Michel Metzl
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1964|12|12}}
| birth_place = Kansas City, Missouri
| death_date =
| death_place =
| death_cause =
| resting_place =
| resting_place_coordinates =
| home_town =
| other_names =
| pronounce =
| residence =
| citizenship =
| nationality = American
| fields = American studies
Psychiatry
Sociology
| workplaces = Vanderbilt University
| patrons =
| education = University of Missouri, Kansas City
Stanford University
University of Michigan
| alma_mater =
| thesis_title = The Freud of Prozac: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs
| thesis_url =
| thesis_year = 2001
| doctoral_advisor = Domna C. Stanton
| academic_advisors =
| doctoral_students =
| notable_students =
| known_for =
| influences =
| influenced =
| awards = Guggenheim Fellowship (2006)
| author_abbrev_bot =
| author_abbrev_zoo =
| spouse =
| partner =
| children =
| signature =
| signature_alt =
| website = {{URL|https://www.jonathanmetzl.com/}}
| footnotes =
}}
Jonathan Michel Metzl (born December 12, 1964){{Cite web |url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002112937.html |title=Metzl, Jonathan, 1964- |website=Library of Congress Name Authority File |access-date=2020-01-04}} is an American psychiatrist and author. He is the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University, where he is also Director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society.{{Cite web |url=https://www.vanderbilt.edu/mhs/faculty/jonathan-m-metzl/ |title=Jonathan M. Metzl |website=Medicine, Health and Society |publisher=Vanderbilt University |language=en-US |access-date=2020-01-04}} Metzl is an expert on gun violence and mental illness, which is the subject of his latest book, What We've Become, Living and Dying in a Country of Arms. He is the author of several other books, including The Protest Psychosis, Prozac on the Couch, Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality, and Dying of Whiteness.{{Cite web |url=https://www.jonathanmetzl.com/jmetzl-books/ |title=JMetzl Books – Jonathan M. Metzl |language=en-US |access-date=2020-01-04}}
Early life and education
Metzl was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri to a Jewish family.{{Cite web |url=https://www.salon.com/2019/04/30/jonathan-metzl-on-the-moment-white-nationalists-invaded-his-d-c-bookstore-discussion/ |title=Writer Jonathan Metzl on the moment neo-Nazis invaded his discussion of "whiteness" |work=Salon |access-date=2020-08-17}} His father was a pediatrician and his mother was a psychoanalyst. He has three brothers, Jordan, Jamie and Joshua, two of whom are doctors.{{Cite web|url=https://www.kcjc.com/current-news/latest-news/4646-it-s-been-a-wonderful-life-for-pediatrician-kurt-metzl |title=It’s been a wonderful life for pediatrician Kurt Metzl |date=2017-12-14}}{{Cite web |url=http://faculty-history.dc.umich.edu/faculty/jonathan-michel-metzl/bio |title=Bio |website=Faculty History Project |publisher=University of Michigan |access-date=2020-01-04}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.nashvillemedicalnews.com/the-crossroads-of-people-medicine-cms-2259 |title=The Crossroads of People & Medicine |last=Kilgore-Hill |first=Melanie |date=2018-01-15 |work=Nashville Medical News |access-date=2020-01-04}} He received two bachelor's degrees, one in biology and one in English literature, from the University of Missouri, Kansas City, where he went on to earn his M.D. He then completed his residency in psychiatry at Stanford University, where he also earned a master's degree in poetry. In 2001, while working as a psychiatrist, he earned a Ph.D. in American studies from the University of Michigan.{{Cite web |url=https://www.jonathanmetzl.com/curriculum-vitae/ |title=Jonathan M. Metzl CV |access-date=2020-01-04}}
Academic career
Metzl joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1998 as director of the Rackham Interdisciplinary Institute. He became an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Women's Studies Program there in 2001 and was named Director of their Program in Culture, Health, and Medicine in 2003. In 2006, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.{{Cite web |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/jonathan-m-metzl/ |title=Jonathan M. Metzl |website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |language=en-US |access-date=2020-01-04}} In 2011, he became the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry and director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University.{{Cite web |url=https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2011/10/03/new-faculty-jonathan-metzl/ |title=Jonathan Metzl |last=Patterson |first=Jim |date=2011-10-03 |website=Vanderbilt University |language=en |access-date=2020-01-04}}
Views
Metzl has written of white identity in the United States being expressed through a vector of "shared resentments" rather than unifying values. He sees whiteness and white identity as increasingly prominent in Donald Trump's presidency.{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/its-time-to-talk-about-being-white-in-america/2019/04/29/20aed83a-6a9b-11e9-be3a-33217240a539_story.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501013850/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/its-time-to-talk-about-being-white-in-america/2019/04/29/20aed83a-6a9b-11e9-be3a-33217240a539_story.html |archive-date=2019-05-01 |url-access=subscription |title=It's time to talk about being white in America|author=Jonathan Metzl |quote=Yet with the rise of President Trump’s brand of resentment politics, American whiteness is increasingly hard to overlook. Trumpian rhetoric defines white identity not by shared values but by shared resentments. Whiteness, in this telling, is under siege. |date=April 29, 2019 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}{{cbignore}}
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [https://news.vanderbilt.edu/experts/expertprofile/?expert_username=jonathanm.metzl Faculty page]
- {{Official website|https://www.jonathanmetzl.com/}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Metzl, Jonathan Michel}}
Category:Vanderbilt University faculty
Category:Physicians from Kansas City, Missouri
Category:Writers from Kansas City, Missouri
Category:21st-century American male writers
Category:University of Missouri–Kansas City alumni
Category:American psychiatrists
Category:American sociologists
Category:20th-century American Jews
Category:Stanford University alumni
Category:University of Michigan alumni