Douglas Flowe

Background

About Douglas Flowe

Douglas Flowe is an Associate professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis, and author of "Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York." From 2014-2016 he was the Postdoctoral Fellow of Inequality and Identity at Washington University's American Culture Studies program, and in 2018 he was a Faculty Fellow at Wash U's Center for the Humanities. His current book project explores the connections between public, private, and economic urban realms with the carceral realities of the American interwar period. Flowe is a graduate of the History program at the University of Rochester where he also served as the Graduate Recruitment and Retention Specialist for the David T. Kearns Center for Leadership and Diversity, a McNair Scholar Advisor, a GEM Representative, and the chair of the Executive Committee for the New York Graduate Admissions Professionals (NYGAP).