Rate My Professor Jonathan Metzl

Metzl's research specializations encompass race and health disparities, structural competency, the politics of mental illness and gun violence, gender and masculinity in health policy, and the cultural history of medicine. His influential books include Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland (Basic Books, 2019), The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease (Beacon Press, 2010), Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs (Duke University Press, 2003), and Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality? (NYU Press, 2010, co-edited). Key articles feature Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and the Politics of American Firearms (American Journal of Public Health, 2015) and Structural Competency: Theorizing a New Medical Engagement with Stigma and Inequality (Social Science & Medicine, 2014). He has received the 2020 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book Award, 2020 APA Benjamin Rush Award for Scholarship, 2020 Vanderbilt Chancellor’s Award for Research, and 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship. Metzl contributes editorially as co-editor of special sections in JAMA Psychiatry and Academic Medicine, and serves on committees including the American Psychiatric Association’s Scientific Program Committee. His work extends to public engagement as a commentator on MSNBC and NPR, columnist for NBC, and film critic for The Lancet, shaping discourse on health inequities and policy.