Meet Dr. Douglas

About the Professor

Andrew J. Douglas has taught at Morehouse since 2011. As a political theorist, his work is concerned with theories and histories of Black radicalism, capitalism, money, labor, and debt. Douglas is the author of three books: Prophet of Discontent: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Critique of Racial Capitalism (Georgia, 2021), coauthored with Jared Loggins; W.E.B. Du Bois and the Critique of the Competitive Society (Georgia, 2019); and In the Spirit of Critique: Thinking Politically in the Dialectical Tradition (SUNY, 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. He is currently working on two new books: one on philosophies of money in the Black radical tradition and another, a co-edited volume, on W.E.B. Du Bois’s writings on political economy.

Douglas was a 2016-2017 residential research fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University. He is actively involved with the American Association of University Professors, as a member of the national AAUP’s Committee on Historically Black Institutions and as secretary of the Morehouse AAUP chapter, and has served for many years in various faculty governance roles at Morehouse. Douglas received his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.