Douglas Peach is originally from Woodford County, Kentucky, where they make all the bourbon and race all those million-dollar horses. His family includes horse thieves, bootleggers, civil rights activists, and he probably has a lot more ne’er-do-wells hiding in his family tree. Before joining academia, he was a successful wedding photographer and photojournalist.

Douglas is a doctoral student in Sociology with a focus on Criminology and in Cinema Studies. Douglas earned both his undergraduate degree in Criminal Justice and his Master’s in Criminology from Eastern Kentucky University. 

Douglas’s graduate thesis was a visual ethnography entitled Blue Lives Memorialized: Collective Memory and the Production of Ideology and Injustice in American Policing which examined the power of public memorials to law enforcement as a relatively unexplored form of media which is  passively and purposefully consumed. His primary research interests include police violence and police culture in general, visual criminology, drugs & society, and the epistemological power of media and its dissemination.  His academic interests are rooted in the movement towards achieving a police and carceral abolition, not reform.

In addition to teaching as part of this program, Douglas is involved with grassroots organizations working towards achieving voting rights for former felons, reproductive rights, and economic equality.

Douglas is the proud father of three lovable girls: Lydia, Lucy, and Lily. If you see these girls in the real world do not make extended eye contact.  They are considered highly dangerous but very short.

Sometimes he imagines getting a dog and naming them Porkchop.