Whitney Dow

Whitney Dow is an Adjunct Associate Professor at GSAPP. He has been producing and directing films focused on race and identity for over two decades and is a partner in Two Tone Productions. His directorial credits include: Two Towns of Jasper; I Sit Where I Want: The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, Unfinished Country; and When the Drum is Beating. His producer credits include: Freedom Summer; Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America; The Undocumented; Toots; and Among the Believers. Dow’s current focus is on the Whiteness Project, a story-based interactive media and research project he is producing in collaboration with American Documentary | POV, and Veterans Coming Home, a digital initiative by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. His work has been recognized with: the George Foster Peabody Award; Alfred I. duPont Award; Anthony Radziwill Documentary Achievement Award; and the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award as well as many film festival honors. Dow teaches visual storytelling in Columbia’s Oral History Master of Arts program and has a Research Scholar appointment at Columbia University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE).