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Jonathan M. Metzl, M.D., Ph.D.
2301 Vanderbilt Place jonathan.metzl@vanderbilt.edu
Nashville, TN http://www.jonathanmetzl.com/
37235 www.vanderbilt.edu/mhs
(615) 353-2504 @jonathanmetzl
DEGREES EARNED
Ph.D., University of Michigan, American Culture (2001)
Title: The Freud of Prozac: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs
M.A., Stanford University, American Poetry/Liberal Arts (1995)
Thesis: Idem the Same: The Poetics of Mental Illness
B.A./M.D., University of Missouri (1991)
BA/MD Program: B.A. English Literature, B.A. Biology, M.D. Medicine
POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING
Fellow, Cross-Cultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan (1997 –
1999)
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, University of Michigan (1995 – 1997)
Psychiatry Residency, Stanford University Hospital (1992 – 1995)
Medical Internship, Stanford University Hospital (1991- 1992)
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Vanderbilt University (2012 – present)
Director, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society
Frederick B. Rentschler II Endowed Professor, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society and
Department of Sociology
Affiliate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
Affiliate Faculty, Department of Health Policy, School of Medicine
Affiliate Faculty, Department of African American and Diaspora Studies
Affiliate Faculty, Department of History
New York University (2015 – 2017)
Research Scholar, Institute for Public Knowledge (IPK)
RWJF Center for Health Policy at Meharry Medical College (2012 – 2015)
Research Scholar
University of Michigan (1998-2011)
Associate Professor, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Women’s Studies Program, and
Department of Psychiatry (2005-2011)
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Women’s Studies Program (2001-2005)
Director, Program in Culture, Health, and Medicine (2003-2011)
Assistant Research Scientist, Institute for Research on Women and Gender
Director, Rackham Interdisciplinary InstituteJonathan Metzl
Core Faculty, The Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program
Clinical Faculty, Department of Psychology
Co-Assistant Director, Disability Studies Program
Affiliated Faculty, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies
Lecturer II, Department of Psychiatry and Women’s Studies Program
Non-Academic Titles
Research Director, Safe Tennessee Project, 2015- , https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2015/09/21/metzl-
assumes-post-in-gun-violence-prevention-organization;
https://safetennesseeproject.org/2015/09/21/dr-jonathan-metzl-named-safe-tennessee-project-
director-of-research/
GRANT SUPPORT (selected; PI unless otherwise specified)
Not listed: funds raised to support Center for MHS
2017-18, Co-I, NEH/Institute for the Humanities, Humanities Frontiers Grant, University of
Illinois-Chicago host
2016-2021 Co-I, AGEP Transformation Alliance: Bridging the PhD to Postdoc to Faculty
Transitions for Women of Color in STEM ($1,049,859)
2014-2018 REAM Foundation Project Grant, Medicine, Health, and Society ($80,000)
2015-2017 Vanderbilt Trans-Institutional Program Grant, The Politics of Health in the US South
($60,000)
2015-2017 Co-PI, Vanderbilt Research Scholar Series Grant, Globalization, Psychiatry, and the
Politics of Global Mental Health ($16, 620)
2015-2016 Co-PI, Vanderbilt International Office (VIO) Seed Grant, Contested global
biopsychiatry: Establishing an international partnership for critical and constructive global
mental health ($17,000)
2012-2015 The Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Center at Meharry Medical College Pilot
Project Grant, “Masculinity, Race, and the Politics of American Men’s Health Policy”
($40,000)
2011-2015 National Science Foundation (NSF), Science and Society Program, Investigator Award,
“Race, Politics, and the History of Psychiatry” ($184,000)
2010-2012 UM Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Faculty Seed Grant, African
American Masculinities and Chronic Illness ($10,000)
2010 UM Publication Subvention Grant, “The Protest Psychosis” ($10,000)
2009-2010 John S. Guggenheim Foundation,One-Year Faculty Fellowship “Protest Psychosis:
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Race, Stigma, and Schizophrenia”
2007-2008 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), One-Year Faculty Fellowship, “Race,
Stigma, and Schizophrenia”
2005-2007 National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD), Junior
Investigator Award, “Race, Stigma, and Mental Illness” ($60,000)
2004-2005 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Health and Society Scholars Program, Small Grant
Award ($25,000)
2004-2005 Michigan Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship ($46,000)
2004 UM Intersections Faculty Grant ($12,000)
2001-2004 NIH K12 Award, “The Role of SSRIs in Defining, Diagnosing, and Treating Women’s
Depressive Illness Across the Life Span” ($189,540)
2000-2004 U.S. Department of Education/Fipse Program, “Seeing the Body Elsewise: Connecting
Medicine and the Humanities” ($249,000)
2000-2003 Rachel Upjohn Foundation, Clinical Scholars Award “Cultural Aspects of Depression”
($15,000)
2002 UM LS&A Subvention Grant, “The Freud of Prozac: Tracing Psychotropic Medications
Through American Culture”
2001-2002 Venture Investment Fund, GME Ethics Initiative ($15,000)
2001-2002 Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Faculty Grant Competition “Gender, Life
Stages, and SSRI Antidepressants”
2000-2001 Life Sciences, Values, and Society Program, Special Project Grant, “Race, Gender, and
the Genome” ($15,000)
1999-2000 Special Project Grant, The Gender Based Censorship Project, University of Michigan
HONORS AND AWARDS (selected)
2016 Dozor International Fellowship, Physicians for Human Rights
2013 Dyason Award Fellowship, University of Melbourne
2011 Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Medical Honor Society, Delta Chapter, Honorary Professor
2009 Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Medical Honor Society, Delta Chapter, Alumni Inductee
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2009 William H. Sirhige Medical Humanities Honorary Lectureship, University of Missouri
2006 School of Philosophical & Historical Inquiry, International Honorary Fellowship, University
of Sydney
2005 Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ), Best Special Issue Award runner up,
“Difference and Identity in Medicine”
2003 – 2004 Trading Concepts: Discourse and Narrative in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Fellow
2003 Future Leaders in Psychiatry, Junior Faculty Award
2002 American Psychiatric Institute For Research and Education, Junior Investigator Award
2000 – 2001 Association of Academic Psychiatry/Galaxo-Wellcome Junior Faculty Development
Award
1998 – 1999 University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities James Wynne Fellowship
1998 – 1999 Special Project Research Grant, Institute for Research on Women and Gender
“The Aesthetics of Depression”
1998 The Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture John P. Speigel International Award in
Cross Cultural Psychiatry, “Psychiatry, Prozac, and Popular Culture”
1998 The Michigan Psychoanalytic Association Outstanding Research Award, “Psychotherapy,
Managed Care, and the Economy of Interaction: The Narrative Theory of Managed Mental
Health Care”
1996 Outstanding Submission, Society for Health and Human Values National Meeting, “Prozac
Narratives: The Biology of a New Approach to Contemporary American Fiction”
OFFICES IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES (selected)
2016 – present Signatory and Delegate, The Collaborative to Advance Equity Through Research
http://www.equitythroughresearch.com/members/#members-
2016 – 2017 Conference Co-chair, American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM)
annual conference
2005 – 2012 Executive Committee, Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U),
Initiative on Depression on College Campuses
2005-2012 Advisory Board, the Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
2005 – 2008 Arts, Literature, and Cultural Studies Review Committee, American Society for
Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH)
2000 – 2003 Presidential Appointee, Telecommunications Subcommittee, American Psychiatric
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Association
2000 – 2003 Scientific Program Committee, American Psychiatric Association
COMMITTEE AND ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE (selected)
Chair, MHS-Policy Global Health Search Committee (2017- )
Chair, MHS-4/1 Asst Grad Chair Search Committee (2017- )
Chair, MHS Search Race/Ethnicity TT Committee (2016-17)
Chair, MHS Promotions Committee (Chaired dossiers for Griffith, Stark, Hamraie, MacLeish plus
non-TT promotions for Lindsey, Petty, Muse, Jones, in 2016,-17)
University Counseling Center/Office of the Dean of Students Committee (2016- )
Dept of Sociology, Health Sociology Search Committee (2017-)
Chair, MHS Administrative Search Committee (2016-17)
Consultant, Vanderbilt Faculty and Staff Wellness Program (2014 – present)
Club advisor, Vanderbilt Student Global Public Health Club (2014 – present)
Vanderbilt Department of Sociology, Promotions and Tenure Committee (2014)
Chancellor’s Cross-College Teaching Committee, Vanderbilt (2012 – 2016)
Chair, Social Foundations of Health 4+1 Planning Committee, MHS (2013 – present)
Instructor, Vanderbilt Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program (2012 – present)
Committee on Health Related Professions, Vanderbilt University (2012 – present)
Committee on Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Studies, Vanderbilt University (2012 – present)
Graduate Chair, Vanderbilt MHS (2012 – present)
Co-chair, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, MHS (2012 – present)
Conference Co-Chair, Structural Competency NYU-Vanderbilt-UCSF,
www.structuralcompetency.org (2012 – present)
Chair, MHS Search Committees (9 searches), Vanderbilt University, http://chronicle.com/article/5-
Professors-Join-Vanderbilts/133539 (2011 – present)
Conference Chair, The Politics of Health in the US South, http://www.vanderbilt.edu/mhs/the-
politics-of-health-in-the-u-s-south (2015 – 2016) vanderbilt
Faculty advisor, Meharry Healthcare Not Handcuffs Campaign (2014 – 2015)
Vanderbilt Department of Sociology, Chair Advisory Selection Committee (2014 – 2015)
2013 Murray Lecture co-organizer, Vanderbilt University (2013)
Co-chair, Vanderbilt Strategic Planning Committee on Healthcare Solutions (2013)
Conference Co-Chair, Structural Competency, UCSF-Vanderbilt, www.structuralcompetency.org
(2013)
Conference Chair, The Politics of Health, Vanderbilt, http://politicsofhealthconference.org (2013)
Senior Advisory Review Committee (SARC), Vanderbilt University, College of Arts & Sciences
(2012 – 2013)
Dean’s Interdisciplinary Studies Committee, Vanderbilt University (2011- 2012)
Core Faculty, Science and Technology Studies Program (2001 – 2011)
Waggoner Lectureship Committee (2001 – 2011)
Review Committee, Women’s Studies, UM (2008 – 2010)
Medical History Committee, UM Medical School (2008 – 2009)
Review Committee, Women’s Studies, UM (2006 – 2007)
UM Presidential Initiative, Michigan Healthy Community Initiative Task Force (2005 – 2007)
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Conference Chair, Against Health: Resisting the Invisible Morality, University of Michigan
www.umich.edu/againsthealth (2006)
Core Faculty, Bioethics Program, University of Michigan School of Medicine (2000 – 2006)
Faculty Search Committee (2), Bioethics Program (2000 – 2006
Chair, Curriculum Committee, Women’s Studies Program, UM (2003 – 2005)
UM Medical School Curriculum Committee, Subcommittee On Professionalization (2003 – 2005)
Chair, Grand Rounds Committee, Department of Psychiatry, UM (2003 – 2005)
Advisory Board, Life Sciences, Values, and Society Program, University of Michigan (2000 –
2005)
Pre-Health Curriculum Committee, Women’s Studies Program, University of Michigan (1999 –
2005)
Chair, Awards Committee, Dorothy McGuigan Student Essay Competition (2003 – 2004)
Women’s Studies Executive Committee (2002 – 2004)
Organizer, Lecture Series on “Gender, Culture, and the Genome”, UM (2002 – 2004)
Chair, Women’s Studies Mini-Course Committee (2001 – 2004)
Cultural Competency Committee, Bioethics Program, UM (2002 – 2003)
Life Sciences Institute, Faculty Seed Grants Committee (2000 – 2003)
Psychiatry Information Systems Committee (2001 – 2002)
Clinical Scholars Search Committee, RWJ Clinical Scholars Program (2000 – 2001)
Gender and the Media Subcommittee, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of
Michigan (1999 – 2001)
Co-Curator, Seeing Is Healing? The Visual Arts of Medicine: The University of Michigan Medical
School Sesquicentennial Exhibition Museum of Art, University of Michigan (2000)
CLINICAL SERVICE
Attending Physician, Adult Outpatient Clinic, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan
(FCC Clinic, Depression Center Team, Individual Psychotherapy/Psychopharmacology, Emergency
Psychiatry, Inpatient Psychiatry) (1999 – 2011)
Attending Physician, Psychological Clinic, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
(2000 – 2010)
Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (APBN)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
BOOKS/COLLECTIONS
Metzl, JM. Dying of Whiteness: Trigger Warnings from the American Heartland. New York:
Basic Books [forthcoming, March, 2019].
Hansen, H. & Metzl, JM, eds. Disparate Care at the Interface of Structural Competencies. New
York: Springer [forthcoming].
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Metzl, JM, ed. What Guns Mean: The Symbolic Lives of Firearms. Special Issue, Palgrave
Communications [forthcoming].
Metzl, JM, ed. The Future of Gun Research: Special Collection of the Social Science Research
Council (SSRC) Items Series, https://items.ssrc.org/social-science-and-the-future-of-gun-
research/?platform=hootsuite.
Metzl, JM & Hansen, H., eds. Viewpoints Special Section: Structural Competency in Psychiatry.
JAMA Psychiatry
Hansen, H & Metzl, JM, eds. Academic Medicine Special Section: Structural Competency in
Medical Education. Academic Medicine March, 2017, Volume 92 - Issue 3,
http://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Fulltext/2017/03000/New_Medicine_for_the_U_S_
_Health_Care_System__.13.aspx
Hansen, H & Metzl, JM, eds. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry Special Issue: Structural Competency in
the U.S. Healthcare Crisis: Putting Social and Policy Interventions Into Clinical Practice. J
Bioeth Inq. 2016 May https://structuralcompetency.org/2016/06/20/journal-of-bioethical-
inquiry-structural-competency-special-issue/
Metzl, JM and Kirkland, A., eds. Against Health: Is Health the New Morality? 2010 New York:
NYU Press.
Jonathan M. Metzl & Anna Kirkland (Hg.): Anti Körper: Wie Gesundheit zur neuen Moral
wurde Ü: A. Kühn, T. Bresemann u.a., ca. 300 S. Englisch Broschur, Isbn: 978-3-939557-17-3,
2015.
Japanese translation, 2017.
Turkish translation, 2017.
Metzl, JM. The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease 2010 Boston:
Beacon Press.
100 Must-Read Books About The History of Medicine- http://bookriot.com/2017/03/15/100-
must-read-books-about-the-history-of-medicine
#BlackLivesMatter Syllabus, https://anthropoliteia.net/2017/02/22/the-anthropoliteia-
blacklivesmatter-syllabus-week-20-sameena-mulla-on-policing-mental-health-and-metzls-
the-protest-psychosis
Metzl, JM and Poirier, S, eds. Difference and Identity in Medicine 2005 Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press.
Metzl, JM, Poirier S. “Difference and Identity in Medicine,” special issue of Literature and
Medicine 2004; 23(1).
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Gardiner P, Metzl, JM, Lewis, B. “The Cultural Studies Of Psychiatry,” special issue of the Journal
of Medical Humanities 2003; 24 (1).
Metzl, JM. Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs 2003 Durham:
Duke University Press.
PUBLICATIONS (selected)
Metzl, JM. “Repeal the Dickey Amendment to Address Polarization Surrounding Firearms in the United
States.” American Journal of Public Health 108 (7): 864-65, July 2018,
https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304461.
Podcast: ‘AJPH July 2018: Gun Violence: What Researchers and Gun Owners Can Do,”
https://soundcloud.com/alfredomorabia/ajph-july-2018-gun-violence-what-researchers-and-
gun-owners-can-do-
english?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=twitter
Metzl, JM, Hansen H. Structural Competency and Psychiatry. JAMA Psychiatry 2018 Feb
1;75(2):115-116; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29261822].
Metzl, JM, Petty JP, Olowojobab, OV. Using a structural competency framework to teach structural
racism in pre-health education. Social Science and Medicine. Volume 199, February 2018, Pages
189-201; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953617303982
Unique premed program teaches new approach to race and health, http://vanderbi.lt/mf5yr
Petty JP, Metzl JM, Keys M. Developing and Evaluating an Innovative Structural Competency
Curriculum for Pre-Health Students. Journal of Medical Humanities, (2017) 38: 459,
doi:10.1007/s10912-017-9449-1; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10912-017-9449-1
Donald, Cameron A. MS; DasGupta, Sayantani MD, MPH; Metzl, Jonathan M. MD, PhD;
Eckstrand, Kristen L. MD, PhD. Queer Frontiers in Medicine: A Structural Competency
Approach. Academic Medicine 92(3):345-350, March 2017
http://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Abstract/publishahead/Queer_Frontiers_in_Medicin
e___A_Structural.98310.aspx]
Hansen, H, Metzl, JM. New Medicine for the U.S. Health Care System: Training Physicians for
Structural Interventions. Academic Medicine 92(3):279-281, March 2017
file:///C:/Users/metzljm/Downloads/New_Medicine_for_the_U_S__Health_Care_System__.982
95%20(1).pdf]
Metzl JM, Petty JP. Integrating Structural Competency Into an Innovative Pre-Health Curriculum at
Vanderbilt University. Academic Medicine 92(3):354-359, March 2017.
http://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Abstract/publishahead/Integrating_and_Assessing_S
tructural_Competency_in.98327.aspx;
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Metzl, JM, McLelland, S, Bergner E. Conflations of Marital Status and Sanity: Implicit
Heterosexist Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis in Physician-Dictated Charts at a Midwestern
Medical Center. Yale J Biol Med. 2016 Jun; 89(2): 247–254.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4918875/?report=classic
Metzl, JM. “Living and Dying in Mental Health: Guns, Race, and the Politics of Schizophrenic
Violence.” In Clara Han and Veena Das, eds., Anthropology of Living and Dying in the
Contemporary World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press [2016].
Hansen H, Metzl JM. Structural Competency in the U.S. Healthcare Crisis: Putting Social and
Policy Interventions Into Clinical Practice. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 2016 (5): 1-5,
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11673-016-9719-
z?wt_mc=Internal.Event.1.SEM.ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst
Andrews L, Metzl JM. “Reading the image of race: Neurocriminology, medical imaging
technologies, and literary intervention.” In, Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical
Humanities, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016: 242-259.
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/mhs/manage/wp-content/uploads/Andrews-Metzl-ECCMH-13.pdf
Metzl, JM. “Well-Being and Being Safe: Do Guns Change Social Interactions?,” In, Harward, D,
ed, Well-Being and Higher Education: A Strategy for Change and the Realization of
Education’s Greater Purposes AAC&U Press, 2016:
http://portal.criticalimpact.com/go/1/bfcb64a2f453f49816676d10e8679c8a/25043/dec711f9ad2
15360/950d4273f26380453947229f28c3afba
https://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/resources/book-reviews/
Metzl, JM. “Race and Mental Health.” In Tess Jones and Delise Wear, eds, Health Humanities
Reader. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2015, 261-67.
Metzl JM, MacLeish, KT. Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and the Politics of American Firearms.
Am J Public Health. 2015;105(2):240-249:
http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2014.302242
Metzl JM. Metzl Responds, Seasonal Influence on Mass Shootings. Am J Public Health:
May 2016, Vol. 106, No. 5, pp. 15-17.
doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303173
Metzl JM. Gun Violence, Stigma, and Mental Illness: Clinical Implications. Psychiatric Times,
special issue on Trauma and Violence. 2015, XXXII (3): 54-57.
http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/special-reports/gun-violence-stigma-and-mental-illness-
clinical-implications
Metzl JM. “Mental Illness, Gun Violence, and (Misguided) Policy Interventions.” Policy People
2015, 23 (10).
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Metzl, JM and Hansen, HH. “Structural Competency: theorizing a new medical engagement with
stigma and inequality.” Social Science & Medicine 2014, 103: 126-133.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953613003778
Cited by the World Health Organization, http://whoeducationguidelines.org/blog/structural-
competency-innovation-social-determinants-health-teaching
Metzl, JM and Roberts, D. “Structural Competency Meets Structural Racism: Race, Politics, and
the Structure of Medical Knowledge.” American Medical Association Journal of Ethics 2014,
16(9): 674-90. http://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/2014/09/spec1-1409.html
Metzl, JM. “Controllin’ the Planet: the Autobiographical Schizophrenia of Hip Hop.” Transition:
Publication of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard
University 2014, 115: 23-33. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/transition.issue-115;
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/mhs/manage/wp-content/uploads/transition.115.231.pdf
Metzl, JM and MacLeish, K. “Triggering the Debate: Faulty Associations Between Violence and
Mental Illness Underlie U.S. Gun Control Efforts.” Risk and Regulation 2013, 25: 8-10.
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/researchAndExpertise/units/CARR/publications/LSE-CARR-
Triggeringthedebate.pdf
Metzl, JM. “Structural Health, and the Politics of African American Masculinity.” American
Journal of Men’s Health 2013, 7(4): 69-72.
Metzl, JM and Franklin, J. “Race, Civil Rights, and Psychiatry.” Atrium 2012 (9): 12-16.
Metzl, JM. “Mental Illness in Popular Culture.” In Laurence Rubin, ed., Mental Illness in Popular
Media: Essays on the Representation of Disorders (London: Mcfarland, 2012): 1-5.
Metzl, JM. “Mainstream Anxieties about Race in Antipsychotic Drug Ads.” American Medical
Association Journal of Ethics 2012, 14 (6):494-502. http://virtualmentor.ama-
assn.org/2012/06/imhl1-1206.html
Metzl, JM.. “Structural Competency.” American Quarterly 2012, 64 (2): 213-18.
Metzl, JM. “Gender Stereotypes in the Diagnosis of Depression: A Systematic Content Analysis of
Medical Records.” In Janice Jenkins, ed., Globalization of Pharmaceuticals 2011 (Santa Fe:
School of Advanced Research Press).
Metzl, JM. “Should the Mentally Ill Bear Arms?: Mental Illness Stigma in the Aftermath of
Tucson.” Lancet 2011; 377: 2172-73.
Griffith, DM, Metzl, JM and Gunter, K. “Considering Intersections of Race and Gender in
Interventions That Address U.S. Men's Health Disparities.” Public Health. 2011;125(7):417-23.
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Metzl, JM. “Taking Pleasure in Drugs.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. (2011) 17(2-
3): 435-437.
Metzl, JM. “Le Prozac et la Narration Sexuée de L’espoir,” In, A. Leibing et Virginie Tournay
(dir.), Technologies de L’espoir. Les débats publics autour de l'innovation médicale - un objet
anthropologique à définir (Presses Universitaires de Laval, collection "Société, cultures et santé,
2010).
Metzl, JM. “The Humanities Do Not Soften Hard Science: Biocultures and the Medical
Humanities,” PMLA 2009; 24(3): 951-953.
Metzl, JM, and Herzig, R. “Medicalization in the 21st Century.” Lancet 2007; 369: 697-98.
Metzl, JM. “If DTC Ads Come to Europe: Lessons from the American Marketplace.” Lancet 2007;
369: 704-06.
Metzl, JM, and Howell, JD. “GREAT MOMENTS: Authenticity, Ideology, and the Telling of
Medical ‘History.’” Literature and Medicine 2006; 25(2):502–521.
Metzl, JM, Angel, J. “Assessing the Impact of SSRI Antidepressants on Popular Notions of
Women’s Depressive Illness.” Social Science and Medicine 2004; 58(3): 577-584.
Metzl, JM. “Voyeur Nation? Changing Definitions of Voyeurism, 1950-2004.” Harvard Review of
Psychiatry 2004; 12(2): 127-31.
Metzl, JM: “The Pharmaceutical Gaze: Psychiatry, Scopophilia, and Psychotropic Medication
Advertising, 1964-1985” in Friedman, ed., Cultural Sutures: Medicine and the Media, 2004
Durham: Duke University Press: 15-36.
Metzl, JM, and Poirier,S. “Multiculturalism in Medicine.” Literature and Medicine 2004; 23(1): 6-
12.
Metzl, JM. “From Scopophilia to ‘Survivor’: A Brief History of Voyeurism, 1950-2004.” Textual
Practice 2004; 18(3): 415-34.
Metzl, JM, and Howell, JD. “Making History: Lessons from the Great Moments Series of
Pharmaceutical Advertisements.” Academic Medicine 2004; 79(11): 1027-32.
Metzl, JM. “Selling Sanity Through Gender: Psychiatry and the Dynamics of Pharmaceutical
Advertising,” Journal of Medical Humanities 2003; 24 (1): 79-103.
Gardiner, P and Metzl, JM. “The Cultural Studies Of Psychiatry: An Introduction,” Journal of
Medical Humanities 2003; 24 (1): 1-9.
Metzl, JM and Howel, JD. “Depression and Art: Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia, I,” Academic
Medicine 2003; 78 (4): 383-84.
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Metzl, JM and Riba, M. “Understanding the Symbolic Values of Psychotropic Medications,”
Primary Psychiatry, 2003 10 (7).
Metzl, JM. “Making ‘Mother’s Little Helper’: The Crisis of Psychoanalysis and the Miltown
Resolution, 1954-1959,” Gender and History 2003; 15 (3): 228-55.
Metzl, JM. “Author Exchange: Gender and Nation in Post-war Visual Culture,” Gender and History
2003; 15 (3): 256-62.
Metzl, JM. “Understanding Psychotropic Medications as Literary Symbols.” Virtual Mentor: Ethics
Journal of the American Medical Association 2003; 5 (10)
Metzl, JM: “Prozac, and the Pharmacokinetics of Narrative Form,” SIGNS: The Journal of Women,
Culture, and Society 2002; 27 (2): 347-380.
Metzl, JM. “Introspections: Angela,” American Journal of Psychiatry 2002 159: 1665-1666.
Metzl, JM “Signifying Medications in Thom Jones’ ‘Superman, My Son,’” in Hudson-Jones, ed.,
MLA Teaching Literature and Medicine, Modern Language Association: New York, 2000: 338-
43.
Reprinted in Karr, ed., Short Story Criticism (56). Detroit: Gale, 2003.
Metzl, JM. “Love and Loss in Mann’s Death in Venice,”
Academic Medicine. 1998; 73(4):412-413.
Metzl, JM. “Psychotherapy, Managed Care, and the Economy of Interaction,”
American Journal of Psychotherapy 1998; 52(3):332-351.
Metzl, JM and Riba M. “Psychiatry and the Humanities in the Age of Prozac,”
Journal of Practical Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, 1998; 4:208-219.
Metzl, JM. “Trauma, Listening, and ‘A Way You’ll Never Be,’”
Medical Humanities Review 1997; 11(1): 22-38.
Metzl, JM. “Managed Mental Health: An Oxymoron of Ethics?”
The Jefferson Journal of Psychiatry 1996; 13(1): 40-47.
BOOK CHAPTERS (selected):
Metzl JM. “China’s Ill-Considered Response to the H1N1 Flu.” In Marsha Meeks, ed., At Issue:
The H1N1 Flu 2011 Gale: Dallas.
McClelland, S and Metzl, JM. “Male Power and Potency.” In Michael Flood and Kegan Gardiner,
J, eds, Routledge International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities 2007 Rutgers: New
Brunswick.
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Metzl, JM: “Medication and the Therapeutic Alliance,” in Tasman and Riba, ed., The Doctor-Patient
Relationship in Pharmacotherapy. 2000 New York: Guilford.
EXTRAMURAL/INVITED PRESENTATIONS (selected)
Over 400 invited presentations since coming to Vanderbilt, full listing at
http://www.jonathanmetzl.com, including grand rounds presentations and invited lectures.
Recent venues include UCLA, Emory, UCSF, The Carter Center, John’s Hopkins University,
Columbia University, NYU, Northwestern, U Chicago, UIC, CUNY Graduate Center, UC Irvine,
Oberlin College, Rice University, Yale, and Mayo Clinic. Also regular speaker/panel organizer
as 4S, AAA, APA, ASA Conferences (e.g., Racism and Health panel co-organizer, 2017 4S,
http://tinyurl.com/lu5z5wg)
Sample recent keynotes or major lectures include
Japanese Society for Transcultural Psychiatry; Association of Academic Psychiatry International
Conference http://www.mcw.edu/FileLibrary/User/pnelson/12128Brochure.pdf
Vanderbilt University College of Arts & Sciences Board of Visitors dinner
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Center for Health Policy at Meharry Medical College, 2012
Partnership Lecture
4th Biennial Conference for Physician-Scholars in the Social Sciences and Humanities
http://physicianscholars.blogspot.com
Keynote address, Race and Health Colloquium, University of Melbourne
http://www.socialequity.unimelb.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/130417-Health-Race-
Flyer-3.pdf
Opening address, University of Chicago Colloquium on Asylums and Prisons
Keynote, Calgary Institute for the Humanities Community Forum
Grand Rounds, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Department of Psychiatry
Walls and Bridges Festival, Brooklyn, New York http://vimeo.com/79820263
Keynote Speaker, Tennessee Dental Association
Keynote Address, Durham Critical Medical Humanities Conference, Durham, UK,
http://centreformedicalhumanities.org/podcast-jonathan-m-metzl-the-protest-psychosis-race-
stigma-and-the-diagnosis-of-schizophrenia
Featured speaker, Conte Center for Neuroscience Research Public Lecture Series,
http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/contecenter/page57/page62/page59/index.html
Vanderbilt Alumni Club, Philadelphia Chapter, Commodore Classroom,
https://events.vanderbilt.edu/index.php?eID=32673
Grand Rounds, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
Henry & Janet Claman Endowed Professorship in Medical Humanities, Fulginiti Pavilion for
Bioethics & Humanities, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus,
http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/medicalschool/centers/BioethicsHumanities/Arts
Humanities/Pages/Claman-Professorship.aspx;
NYU, Illness Narratives, Networked Subjects, and Intimate Publics
Mode d’emploi Festival of Ideas, Lyon, France, http://www.villagillet.net/en/portal/users-
guide/detail/article/la-maladie-entre-limaginaire-social-et-le-fait-politique;
https://soundcloud.com/villa-gillet/22-11-la-maladie
Vanderbilt University College of Arts and Science, Board of Visitors Annual Meeting
Colorado College, endowed lecture, Social Issues and Historical Contexts (SIHC) Initiative
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http://www.jonathanmetzl.com/event/race-politics-and-the-criminalization-of-mental-illness
“Does Political Protest Incite Mental Illness?.” USC Department of Sociology
http://dornsife.usc.edu/assets/sites/62/docs/collo_feb.pdf
Yale University Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds
http://www.jonathanmetzl.com/event/psychiatry-grand-rounds-at-yale
Invited symposium, Program in History of Science, Princeton University,
http://history.princeton.edu/news-events/events/does-political-protest-incite-mental-
illness%E2%80%9D-race-violence-and-political-origins
Keynote, 2015 Gender, Health & the South Symposium at Wake Forest University,
http://www.jonathanmetzl.com/event/2015-gender-health-the-south-symposium-at-wake-
forest-university
Keynote, CHCI International Medical Humanities Network Annual Conference
https://chcimedicalhumanities.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/summer-institute-schedule
Invited speaker, Vanderbilt Alumni Association – Memphis;
http://www.vuconnect.com/s/1643/index.aspx?sid=1643&gid=2&pgid=3312&crid=0&calpgid
=61&calcid=1623
Keynote, 2015 Southwest Latino Men’s Health Conference,
http://www.jonathanmetzl.com/event/keynote-structural-competency-theorizing-a-new-
medical-approach-to-stigma-and-inequality
Grand Rounds, Tulane Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Invited Lecture, Balance in Mental Health and Wellbeing hosted by the Centre for Medical History,
University of Exeter
Research presentation, American Studies Association Annual Meeting 2015
Invited community lectures (2), Center for Africana Studies and the Department of Sociology,
University of Pennsylvania, https://prss.sas.upenn.edu/events/stigma-political-protest-and-
diagnosis-schizophrenia-jonathan-metzl-vanderbilt
Grand Rounds, Columbia-Mailman School of Public Health,
http://www.jonathanmetzl.com/event/race-stigma-and-the-diagnosis-of-schizophrenia-grand-
rounds-at-columbia-university
Keynote, Assessing Firearms through the Intersections of Race, Gender, & Mental Health’ –
University of Missouri roundtable discussion, http://www.jonathanmetzl.com/wp-
content/uploads/2015/10/Jonathan-Metzl-Oct-2015.pdf
Keynote, “Navigating the Complexity of Mental Health Needs in Society: The intersection of
Ethics, Policy and Practice”, University of Missouri, Columbia,
http://www.jonathanmetzl.com/event/keynote-navigating-the-complexity-of-mental-health-
needs-in-society-the-intersection-of-ethics-policy-and-practice
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Endowed Lecture, the twenty-first Stanley D. Simon, MD, Lecture and Forum, Brown Medical
School, http://www.brown.edu/academics/medical/about-us/events/21st-simon-lecture
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Commissioner’s Lecture Series,
http://www.jonathanmetzl.com/event/the-protest-psychosis-at-new-york-city-department-of-
health-and-mental-hygiene-commissioners-lecture-series
Vanderbilt Alumni Commodore Classroom invited lecture, the Carter Center Museum and Library,
Atlanta, Georgia, http://www.jonathanmetzl.com/event/atlanta-commodore-classroom-feburary-
2016-jonathan-metzl
The Promise and Challenge of Precision Medicine: An Interdisciplinary Conversation, Columbia
University, http://www.jonathanmetzl.com/event/lecturepanel-discussion-on-precision-
medicine-columbia-university
Keynote, 2016 Health Humanities Conference, Cleveland, OH,
http://www.jonathanmetzl.com/event/keynote-at-2016-health-humanities-conference-cleveland-
clinic
Keynote, Cultures of Harm Conference, Birkbek College, London, UK,
http://www.jonathanmetzl.com/event/cultures-of-harm-in-institutions-of-care-historical-and-
contemporary-perspectives
Keynote, Virginia Association of Community Services Boards Annual Conference,
http://vacsb.org/May%202016/conference_schedule_May2_website.pdf
Invited speaker, Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology
Colloquium, https://www.hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/content/colloquium-jonathan-metzl
JAS History of Medicine and Health Activism panel – New York Academy of Medicine,
https://jashistofmed.wordpress.com/program
Racism and Health in the US South – Colloquium at Georgia Tech,
http://www.jonathanmetzl.com/event/racism-and-health-in-the-us-south-colloquium-at-georgia-
tech-university
Endowed lecture, University of Illinois-Chicago, http://www.jonathanmetzl.com/event/structural-
competency-a-new-paradigm-for-addressing-race-and-racisms-in-medicine-chicago-il
Keynote, Black Psychiatrists of America 37th Transcultural Psychiatry Conference,
http://www.jonathanmetzl.com/event/keynote-at-black-psychiatrists-of-america-37th-
transcultural-psychiatry-conference-nassau-bahamas/
Program Committee Invited Lecture, ASA Annual Conference,
http://www.jonathanmetzl.com/event/panel-on-campus-carry-asa-program-committee/
Endowed Lecture, Texas A&M University, http://www.jonathanmetzl.com/event/changing-the-
terms-of-debate-about-gun-violence-mental-illness-mass-shootings-and-the-politics-of-
american-firearms
Grand Rounds, University of Washington, Seattle, Medical Center,
http://www.jonathanmetzl.com/event/grand-rounds-university-of-washington-medical-center-
seattle/
Grand Rounds, Tufts Department of Psychiatry, Boston, MA,
http://www.jonathanmetzl.com/event/grand-rounds-department-of-psychiatry-tufts-medical-
center-boston/
Grand Rounds, Einstein Medical Center Dept. of Psychiatry, Philadelphia, PA,
http://www.jonathanmetzl.com/event/grand-rounds-einstein-medical-center-philadelphia
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Invited Lecture, University of Pennsylvania. Dept of Africana Studies,
http://www.jonathanmetzl.com/event/invited-lecture-department-of-africana-studies-university-
of-pennsylvania/
Invited Lecture, DAHSM Culpeper Seminar Series, UCSF Hospital, San Francisco, CA,
http://www.jonathanmetzl.com/event/alt-white-supremacy-as-public-health-emergency-dahsm-
culpeper-seminar-series/
Grand Rounds, UCSF School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA,
http://www.jonathanmetzl.com/event/mental-illness-mass-shootings-and-the-politics-of-
american-firearms-changing-the-terms-of-the-debate/
Keynote, Chicago Southland HIV Provider Alliance, Chicago, IL,
http://aetcnec.virtualforum.com/eventfiles/May%202017%20southland%20flyer1.pdf
Keynote, John Hope Franklin Humanities Futures Capstone Conference, Duke University, Durham
NC, http://www.jonathanmetzl.com/a-new-paradigm-for-race-racisms-in-medicine-duke-
franklin-humanities-institute/
Invited speaker, Vanderbilt Medical School, “Gun Policy in America,” [Forthcoming]
Grand Rounds, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry [Forthcoming]
https://behavioralhealth.ucdavis.edu/events/flyers/metzl-flier-032218.pdf
http://calendars.illinois.edu/detail/5093?eventId=33289147&isRecurring=false
2018 Health & Humanities Pop-Up Institute @UTAustin,
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/humanitiesinstitute/events/event.php?id=47072
Upcoming:
Panel Chair/Presentation, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August, 11-14,
2018, “Guns in Trump’s America,”
https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/asa/asa18/index.php?cmd=Online+Program+View+S
ession&selected_session_id=1274315&PHPSESSID=hj4echa49j1lf1fiadvri46ah4
Plenary Panel Chair/Presentation, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August, 11-
14, 2018, “Feeling Race in the Public Eye: Media and Race during the Trump Era,”
https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/asa/asa18/index.php?cmd=Online+Program+View+S
ession&selected_session_id=1422890&PHPSESSID=1hbue0v8dh0fl45oabk3j9fs02
Lecture, “Dying of Whiteness The Mortal Politics of U.S. White Supremacy in the Age of Trump,”
Biennial Conference of the Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology Edinburgh, Scotland,
4-5 September 2018,
http://www.san.ed.ac.uk/edcma/events/workshops_and_conferences/upcoming/rai_biennial_me
dical_anthropology_conference_valuing_health
Keynote, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Conference, “American Firearms
and Mass Shootings: Mental Illness, Politics, and Policies,” October 19, 2018, Anaheim,
California, http://asbh.org/annual-meeting/schedule
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Invited Lecture/Master Class, “How to Talk About Guns in the Classroom,” University of Illinois,
(UIC) Division of Health Humanities, http://healthhumanities.red.uic.edu/
Invited Lecture, “Dying of Whiteness,” Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, Nov 8, 2018,
https://slought.org/
Gallery talk, “On Whiteness, Empathy, and Politics,” TFA Popup/Art Basel, Miami Beach, Fla,
Dec. 7, 2018, http://tfapopup.com/
MEDIA/OTHER
Commentator, MSNBC, Melissa Harris Perry Show. Over 200 segments, including,
• “Psychological effects after terror attacks” Director at the Center for Medicine, Health and
Society at Vanderbilt Dr. Jonathan Metzl explains how a person can have great
psychological effects after a terrorist attack due to fear and trauma.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-news/watch/psychological-effects-after-terror-attacks-
571510339985
• “Deadly shooting at Colorado Planned Parenthood” NBC's Leann Gregg, David S. Cohen
from Drexel University, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., MSNBC's Irin Carmon and Dr.
Jonathan Metzl from the Center for Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University,
discuss the deadly attack that took place Friday at a Colorado Planned Parenthood.
http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/watch/deadly-shooting-at-colorado-planned-
parenthood-575650883924
• “Was attack on Planned Parenthood terrorism?” Police have not yet determined what
motivated the gunman who held a Colorado Planned Parenthood under siege, but the
possibility of the clinic being a target was enough for the building to have a "security room",
according to the New York Times. Terrorism intelligence consultant Malcolm Nance joins
to discuss. http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/watch/was-attack-on-planned-
parenthood-terrorism--575653955547
• “Why did it take 400 days to charge Van Dyke?” It took prosecutors 400 days to charge
Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke with first-degree murder in the death of 17-year-old
Laquan McDonald, a shooting which was captured on video. Charlene Carruthers of the
Black Youth Project's BYP 100 and Omar Wasow from Princeton University join to discuss.
http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/watch/why-did-it-take-400-days-to-charge-van-
dyke--575658051829
• “What the Bland case says about stereotypes” The arrest and death of Sandra Bland has
raised questions about the perception of black women in America. Danielle Moodie-Mills
and Dr. Jonathan Metzl join to discuss.http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-
perry/watch/what-the-bland-case-says-about-stereotypes-493489731995
• “Church shooter facing hate crime charges” Charleston church shooting suspect Dylan Roof
will be arraigned on new federal hate crime charges. Jonathan Metzl and Vince Warren join
to discuss.http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/watch/church-shooter-facing-hate-
crime-charges-491476035983
• “Defining racism in America” http://on.msnbc.com/1I5XzmK
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• “MHP: Charleston attack was ‘an act of racial terror’” http://on.msnbc.com/1Gqz6my
• “The politics of SC and race” http://on.msnbc.com/1I5ZsA2
• “Ferguson reacts to shooting, DOJ report” Police are looking for the people responsible for
shooting two police officers during a protest outside of the Ferguson police station. The
shooting came as Ferguson's city government struggles with the fallout of a damning
Department of Justice report. http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/watch/ferguson-
reacts-to-shooting--doj-report-413192259728
• “What it’s like to be white in Ferguson” What it’s like to be a white citizen in Ferguson.
What is happening with the 29% of Ferguson who is white? How have the protests, national
media attention, and DOJ report detailing the city's pattern and practice of racial inequality
changed how they feel about their city? Msnbc’s Amanda Sakuma reports.
http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/watch/what-it-s-like-to-be-white-in-ferguson-
413193283661
• “How affirmative action has been steadily eroded” Melissa Harris-Perry notes that while a
racist chant in a video may have exposed a single fraternity, the systematic dismantling of
affirmative action speaks volumes about our country's commitment to diversity in higher
education. http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/watch/how-affirmative-action-has-
been-steadily-eroded-413196867530
• “Racist chant by fraternity is only part of the story” Michael Eric Dyson, Cristina Beltran,
Jonathan Metzl, and Monroe France join Melissa Harris-Perry to discuss the role of
educational institutions in embracing diversity on their campuses.
http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/watch/racist-chant-by-fraternity-only-part-of-
story-413206595646
• “How do we define hate?” It has been a week of mourning for a university community in
North Carolina after three Muslim-American students were shot to death.
http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/watch/how-do-we-define-hate--399266883903
• “MHP show tackles '50 Shades of Grey' phenomenon” http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-
harris-perry/watch/mhp-show-tackles-50-shades-of-grey-phenomenon-399286339505
• “Will '50 Shades of Grey’ change how we view sex?” http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-
harris-perry/watch/will-50-shades-of-grey--change-how-we-view-sex--399285827764
• “How we view mass shooters” http://on.msnbc.com/1yYYRd9
• “Do open carry laws make people less safe?” http://on.msnbc.com/1uMvT1X
• “Will 'deflate-gate' impact the game?: http://on.msnbc.com/1yZ3i7K
• “Message of 'American Sniper' hotly debated: http://on.msnbc.com/1JqewH9
• “What causes racial inequality? http://on.msnbc.com/1AM4cEI
• “How is Obama managing race conversation? http://on.msnbc.com/1AMbPLm
• “Deciphering reporting on Tamir Rice story http://on.msnbc.com/1AMgpt7
• Suicide in America” Jamie Kilstein and Jonathan Metzl on Robin Williams’ passing and
Suicide in America: http://on.msnbc.com/1nZZpH8
• “Panel Discussion: How young black men interact with police”
http://on.msnbc.com/1sLITCh
• "The politics of parenting" http://on.msnbc.com/1ixnvg4
• "How politicians target parents" http://on.msnbc.com/1sxvkqy
• "The billion dollar baby business" http://on.msnbc.com/1l1rBIf
• "The unrealistic standards faced by new moms" http://on.msnbc.com/1pAIHmk
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• "How motherhood can change political views" http://on.msnbc.com/1jHBbQG
• “Panel Discussion: mental health issues and gun control” With new details released this
week about James Holmes, the man accused in the Aurora, Colorado mass shooting, Melissa
Harris-Perry's panelists discuss mental health issues and gun control.
• http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/51457610
• “Do gun control advocates have to win the legislative battle in order to win the gun war?”
GritTV.org’s Laura Flanders, Democratic Strategist Tara Dowdell, Arkady Gerney from the
Center for American Progress, and Vanderbilt University professor Jonathan Metzl talk
about the gun control debate’s long-term impact on gun culture, even if a bill doesn’t
pass. http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/51457588
• “BRAIN Initiative” Sam Wang, associate professor at Princeton’s Neuroscience Institute,
Partha Mitra, Professor of Biomathematics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Laura
Flanders, host and founder of GritTV.org, and Doctor Jonathan Metzl, professor of
psychiatry at Vanderbilt University, join Melissa Harris-Perry to talk about President
Obama’s proposed Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies, or
BRAIN Initiative. http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/51457552
• “BRAIN Initiative” Melissa Harris-Perry talks about a study that shows brain scans have the
ability to predict with “startling accuracy” the likelihood that convicted criminals will re-
offend, and whether that could lead to parole hearings with serious legal and ethical
concerns. http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/51457581
• New research released from the RAND Corporation shows the costs and the number of
people with dementia in the U.S. is expected to double by 2040. The Melissa Harris-Perry
panel discusses whether the county is unprepared to care for this population.
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/51457576
• “How Misogyny influences the Justice system” http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-
perry/watch/how-misogyny-influences-the-justice-system-271144003515
• “How school lockdowns have become familiar” http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-
perry/watch/how-school-lockdowns-have-become-familiar-90917955674
• “Is police presence needed to deter shootings” http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-
perry/watch/is-police-presence-needed-to-deter-shootings-90914883683
• “Are military weapons needed for local crises” http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-
perry/watch/are-military-weapons-needed-for-local-crises-90931779601
• “The truth about the mentally ill and guns” http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-
perry/51114780
• “The ripple effect of violence” http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/51124323
• “Guns, race, and mental health” http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/51114838
• “‘Patient navigation,’ the ACA, and racial health disparities”
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/51124049
• “Dissecting the details of Trayvon Martin’s case” http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-
harris-perry/46419672#46843434
• “Pop Quiz” http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/46419672#46843621
• “Your brain on politics” http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-
perry/46419672#46843779
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Film Critic, The Lancet. Reviews include, A Bitter Pill: Review of Steven Soderbergh's Side
Effects (Metzl JM, 2013, 381 (9873): 1174:
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(13)60786-2/fulltext
Columnist, NBC.COM. Recent articles include,
• “Obama Unveils Executive Action on Guns” http://on.msnbc.com/1mITqgE
• “Let's talk about guns, but stop stereotyping the mentally ill”
http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/04/24/lets-talk-about-guns-but-stop-stereotyping-the-mentally-ill
• “The NRA and race” http://thegrio.com/2013/03/06/colion-noir-the-nras-urban-gun-
enthusiast-is-off-target
• “When shootings happen, gender has to be part of the conversation”
http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/yes-isla-vista-was-gender-based-hate-crime
• “The New Science of Blaming Moms” http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/the-
new-science-blaming-moms
• “When a Parking Dispute is also a Crime of Hate” (msnbc.com)
http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/nc-shooting-when-parking-dispute-also-crime-
hate
Metzl, JM. “Sequester This! The Perils of Masculinity and the Truth About Sex.” Public Books:
http://www.publicbooks.org/nonfiction/sequester-this-the-perils-of-masculinity-and-the-truth-
about-sex
NPR: States of Mind—Mental Illness in America: http://backstoryradio.org/shows/states-of-mind/
CSPAN Book-TV, “Race and Health, from the Harlem Book Fair,” July 27, 2013,
http://www.booktv.org/Program/14795/2013+Harlem+Book+Fair+Science+Health+Panel.aspx
“Manual: The Politics of Psychiatric Diagnosis,” Somatosphere:
http://somatosphere.net/2014/03/manual.html
“Le diagnostic psychiatrique opère-t-il entre l'imaginaire social et le fait politique?,” Huffington
Post—France, http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/jonathan-metzl/le-diagnostic-psychiatrique-opere-t-
il-entre-limaginaire-social-et-le-fait-politique_b_6176976.html
Radio France: La maladie, entre l’imaginaire social et le fait politique (en partenariat avec Le
Monde), http://www.franceculture.fr/player/reecouter?play=4955294; Plus de détails sur cette
émission :http://www.franceculture.fr/emission-la-grande-table-2eme-partie-la-mala...
“Physicians are woefully unprepared to address how illness results from economic stressors,”
Nashville Post,
https://www.nashvillepost.com/news/2014/6/30/the_case_for_structural_competency
Psychology Today describes structural competency as a “groundbreaking” new approach to medical
education (http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/side-effects/201402/income-inequality-is-
making-americans-sick).
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“Jonathan Metzl on Mental Illness and Gun Violence,” Vanderbilt Magazine,
http://news.vanderbilt.edu/vanderbiltmagazine/qa-with-dr-jonathan-metzl/
New York Times, “Can Psychiatrists Stop Gun Violence?,” http://op-
talk.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/16/can-psychiatrists-stop-gun-violence
New York Times, “When Officers Die and Protesters Get the Blame,” http://op-
talk.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/23/when-officers-die-and-protests-get-the-blame/?smid=tw-
share
NPR Here and Now, “Does Political Protest Incite Mental illness?,”
http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2014/12/23/protests-incite-mental-illness
NY1: Dr. Jonathan Metzl from Vanderbilt University discusses the mental health aspect of the
recent killings of two NYPD officers,
http://www.ny1.com/content/politics/inside_city_hall/220863/ny1-online--professor-of-
psychiatry-discusses-mental-health-aspect-of-police-tragedy
Somatosphere, “What is the Role of Psychiatry after Ferguson?,”
http://somatosphere.net/2014/12/psychiatry-after-ferguson.html
The Conversation, “James Holmes Trial Puts Sanity on the Stand,”
http://theconversation.com/james-holmes-trial-puts-sanity-on-the-stand-40611
New Republic, Are looser gun laws changing the social fabric of Missouri? ; also,
https://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/are-looser-gun-laws-changing-the-social-fabric-of-missouri/
Vanderbilt News: Is depression to blame for an unhappy marriage? Or do most psychiatrists just
assume it is? http://vanderbi.lt/q7arj
The Shootings You Don’t Hear About - Madeleine Brand interview with Jonathan Metzl on KCRW
http://kcrw.co/1UI68WN
Mass Shootings and Mental Illness | WYPR Mass Shootings and Mental Illness,
http://www.tinyurl.com/hcx2ync
Despite popular belief, it’s hard to find a direct link between mental illness and mass shootings like
Orlando’s http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2016/06/despite-popular-belief-its-hard-to-find-a-
direct-link-between-mental-illness-and-mass-shootings-like-orlandos.html/
Remembering Christina Grimmie, a Friend Who'd 'Come Up and Give You a Hug'
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/magazine-feature/7415690/christina-grimmie-
remembered-by-friends-inner-circle via @billboard
Après Orlando, les armes toujours , http://www.liberation.fr/debats/2016/06/23/apres-orlando-les-
armes-toujours_1461558
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