The research of Douglas Flowe (PhD) focuses on criminality, illicit leisure, and masculinity and how they converge with issues of race, class, and space in American cities and the carceral state. He is the author of the award-winning book Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York, which received the Littleton-Griswold Prize from the American Historical Association in 2021. He received a Mellon Fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 2021. His work has been featured in various academic journals and media outlets, including PBS’s American Experience, the History Channel’s series Prison Chronicles, and CNN Tonight with Don Lemon. He also co-hosts the National Geographic series Ancient China from Above, Season 2, and is a regular correspondent on KBLA’s Areva Martin in Real Time.