Join Bridging the Gaps Seminar Series for a conversation with Dr. Jonathan M. Metzl, the author of the groundbreaking book, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland, & his most recent book, What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms. By looking at a racially-charged mass shooting in Nashville, TN, What We’ve Become reexamines how we as a nation address gun violence.
We will discuss the connections between gun violence and mental illness and think critically about the role of public health in the U.S. gun debate.
Speaker
Jonathan M. Metzl MD, PhD, is the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, and the director of the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He received his MD from the University of Missouri, MA in humanities/poetics and psychiatric internship/residency from Stanford University, and PhD in American culture from University of Michigan. Winner of the 2020 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book Award, the 2020 APA Benjamin Rush Award for Scholarship, and a 2010 Guggenheim fellowship, Dr. Metzl has written extensively about the relationships between guns, mass shootings, and mental illness.