Please Join us for the Dawley Memorial Lecture: Why Do People Vote Against Their Own Self-interests?: The 2020 Election and the Politics of Racial Resentment by Jonathan Metzl

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Jonathan Metzl (@jonathanmetzl) is the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, and the Director of the Center for 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, A 2008 Guggenheim fellow, Professor Metzl has written extensively for medical, psychiatric, and popular publications. His books include Dying of Whiteness, The Protest Psychosis, Prozac on the Couch, and Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For more information on Dr. Metzl’s recent book Dying of Whiteness How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland, please click here.

 

Confirmed sponsors of the day’s events (the list is still growing):

Academic Affairs

Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Cultural and Intellectual Community Council

School of Humanity of Social Sciences

Department of African American Studies

Department of Communication Studies

Department of Criminology

Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education

Department of English

Department of Philosophy, Religion, and Classical Studies

Department of Psychology

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Department of World Languages and Culture