{"id":5529,"date":"2012-05-01T16:52:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T16:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/?p=5529"},"modified":"2023-09-07T11:25:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T18:25:30","slug":"dan-berger","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/faculty-and-staff\/dan-berger","title":{"rendered":"Dan Berger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Professor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Scholarship<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\"Dan<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

B.A. Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Florida
B.S. Journalism, University of Florida
Ph.D. Communications, University of Pennsylvania <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Office: UW2-308
Phone: 425-352-3744
Email: daberger@uw.edu<\/a>
Mailing Box: 358530, 18115 Campus Way NE, Bothell, WA 98011-8246<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teaching<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Teaching, to me, is an act of mentorship. I view the classroom as a space where students can ask questions, pose challenges, experiment with ideas, and discuss key concerns about the world in a supportive environment. I see my role as a teacher in helping students think critically and creatively\u2014about both course materials and society at large. 足彩app哪个是正规的 classroom is not a bubble separate from the rest of the world but rather a laboratory in which to understand it. I try to minimize the gap between what we study and the \u201creal world\u201d by animating the ways complex ideas and histories continue to structure our daily experiences and practices. My classes utilize a variety of mechanisms, from small group discussions and student-led presentations to a range of participatory activities, to work through core concepts. Learning is a collaborative process, done through individual and collective work, and my classes try to strike that balance. I hope that by participating in their own learning students will take intellectual risks\u2014will engage new concepts thoughtfully and articulate taken-for-granted concepts differently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent Courses Taught<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

BIS 256 Introduction to African American Studies
BIS 336 History of Mass Incarceration
BIS 340 Approaches to Cultural Research
BISAES 305 Power, Dissent, and American Culture
BCULST 570 Prisons, Politics and Activism<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research\/Scholarship<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I am an interdisciplinary historian of activism, Black Power, and the carceral state in twentieth century U.S. history. My research pursues a human accounting of how freedom and violence have shaped the United States. Much of my work is located in critical prison studies, including the diverse ways in which imprisonment has shaped social movements, racism, and American politics since World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My latest book is\u00a0Stayed on Freedom: 足彩app哪个是正规的 Long History of Black Power Through One Family’s Journey<\/em>,<\/a>\u00a0which is a biography of the modern Black freedom struggle through the lives of Zoharah Simmons and Michael Simmons. Published in 2023, the book has already been hailed as “a triumph in storytelling” (Hanif Abdurraqib) and a “rare, intimate portrait … that will join classics on this period” (Imani Perry). My other books include\u00a0Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0which won the 2015 James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians;\u00a0Rethinking the American Prison Movement<\/a><\/em>, coauthored with Toussaint Losier; and\u00a0Remaking Radicalism<\/a><\/em>, coedited with Emily Hobson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am a firm believer in public scholarship. I co-curate the\u00a0Washington Prison History Project<\/a>, a digital archive of prisoner activism and prison policy in our state. I write often for public audiences in\u00a0Black Perspectives, Boston Review, Truthout, and the Washington Post<\/em>, among elsewhere. At the UW, I am an affiliate member of the\u00a0Center for Human Rights<\/a>, the\u00a0Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies<\/a>, and the\u00a0UW Seattle Department of History<\/a>, and I co-direct the\u00a0UW Bothell Labor Colloquium<\/a>. Beyond the university, I am on the advisory or editorial boards of the\u00a0American Prison Newspaper Project<\/a>,\u00a0足彩app哪个是正规的 Global Sixties, the Journal of Civil and Human Rights,<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0Justice, Power, and Politics book series<\/a>\u00a0at UNC Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected Publications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Books<\/h3>\n\n\n\n