Dow's current focus is on the Whiteness Project, a story-based interactive media and research project he is producing in collaboration with Columbia University's Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE). The project, which will ultimately include 1,000 subjects from communities across the United States, examines how Americans who identify as "white" or "partially white", process their ethnicity, and pairs it with with secondary quantitative data — attitudinal, socioeconomic and genomic — collected by a team from INCITE. The resulting media and data set will serve as the foundation for a series of academic and media projects as well as an interactive academic resource that will live in Columbia's library system. Dow is also currently serving as Story Director for the multi-platform Public Media project "Veterans Coming Home" (VCH), a digital initiative by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Dow teaches interactive storytelling in the Integrated Media Arts (IMA) MFA program at CUNY Hunter College and has lectured widely and has a Research Scholar appointment at Columbia University.