Meet Dr. Douglas

About Dr. Andrew Douglas

Dr. Andrew J. Douglas is a professor of political science at Morehouse College, where he has taught since 2011.

Andrew J. Douglas has taught at Morehouse since 2011. A political theorist, his writings and course offerings explore intellectual histories of Black radicalism and critical theories of capitalism, money, labor, and debt. He is currently working on a new book, tentatively titled “Counterpublic Money: Monetary Experimentation in the Black Radical Tradition,” as well as an edited volume of W.E.B. Du Bois’s writings on political economy.

Douglas is the author of three books: Prophet of Discontent: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Critique of Racial Capitalism (2021), coauthored with Jared Loggins; W.E.B. Du Bois and the Critique of the Competitive Society (2019); and In the Spirit of Critique: Thinking Politically in the Dialectical Tradition (2013). Articles and other writings have appeared in, among other outlets, The Du Bois Review, The C.L.R. James Journal, Constellations, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Contemporary Political Theory, The Review of Politics, Boston Review, Academe, Money on the Left, and Political Theory. Douglas was a 2016-2017 residential research fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University. He is a member of the AAUP’s Committee on Historically Black Institutions and served for four years as chair of the Morehouse faculty council. Douglas received his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.