Meet Dr. Douglas

About the Professor

Andrew J. Douglas has taught political theory at Morehouse since 2011. 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, Political Theory, and The Oxford Handbook of Du Bois. Interviews and other discussions have been featured on podcasts such as The American Vandal, Millennials Are Killing Capitalism, Money on the Left, and I Mix What I Like. Douglas is currently working on two new books: a monograph on philosophies of money in the Black radical tradition and a co-edited volume on W.E.B. Du Bois’s writings on political economy.

Douglas is a recipient of grants and fellowships from, among other organizations, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University. He is actively involved with the American Association of University Professors as a member of the AAUP’s Committee on Historically Black Institutions and as secretary of the Morehouse AAUP chapter. Douglas received his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.