Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer

I am a medical anthropologist and historian of medicine in the U.S., focusing on psychiatry and neuroscience in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. My work focuses on disabilities as they are social produced and offers ways to reconceptualize the role of institutions in the experiences of disability, health, and well-being. I hold a Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology, an M.A. in American Cultural Studies, an M.A. in English Literature (with a focus on Science Fiction Studies), and a B.A. in English Literature and Language. I've published four books: The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine and American Life (2012), Theory for the World to Come (2019), Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age (2020), and American Disgust: Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within (2024), all published by the University of Minnesota Press.