Antinolfi will serve as Dean’s Fellow for Budget and Resource Planning. Flowe will serve as Dean’s Fellow for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Feng Sheng Hu, the Richard G. Engelsmann Dean of Arts & Sciences, recently announced new leadership appointments for two Arts & Sciences faculty members.
Gaetano Antinolfi, a professor and former chair of the Department of Economics, has been named the Dean’s Fellow for Budget and Resource Planning. In this two-year role, he will work with Dean Hu and senior leadership to assess the budget planning process and help develop dynamic new budgeting and resource models.
Antinolfi's research and teaching focus on macro, monetary, and international economics. His recent papers analyze the role of a central bank as a lender of last resort, the equilibrium financial structure of the economy, dollarization, and external crises. In 2000 and 2001, he was a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
Douglas Flowe, associate professor of history, has been named the Dean’s Fellow for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Flowe will work closely with Dean Hu and senior leadership to help direct Arts & Sciences’ current DEI activities, evaluate results, and explore new opportunities. He will serve in the position for two years starting in January 2025, when he returns from leave.
Flowe’s research 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 prize-winning book “Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York." His work has been published in several journals and he frequently appears in the media to address black history, policing, and mass incarceration.
Dean Hu also congratulates Adia Harvey Wingfield, the Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of Arts & Sciences, as she joins the Office of the Provost. Wingfield has served as Arts & Sciences’ vice dean of faculty development and diversity initiatives since 2021. In her new role with the provost’s office, she will collaborate with Ian Bogost, the Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professorship, to build a faculty resource to enhance public scholarship on the Danforth campus. Bogost and Wingfield are co-directors of the Program in Public Scholarship, a signature initiative of the Arts & Sciences Strategic Plan.
Wingfield’s research examines how and why racial and gender inequality persists in professional occupations. Her work has been widely published in peer-reviewed journals and she frequently writes for mainstream media outlets such as Slate, The Atlantic, Vox, and Harvard Business Review.
“Adia has been a tremendous asset to the senior leadership team in Arts & Sciences,” Hu said. “Her insights and guidance have strengthened our diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts across campus, leading to new initiatives that support faculty across their careers. I am grateful for the many ways she has invested her talents in Arts & Sciences.”
Hu said he looks forward to working closely with Antinolfi and Flowe in the coming years. “As we continue to build on our ambitious strategic plan, safeguarding our resources and supporting our vibrant campus community becomes increasingly important. The expertise of professors Antinolfi and Flowe will help us leverage the tremendous momentum we’re building in Arts & Sciences.”
