Dan Berger

Dan Berger is an author, historian and professor at the University of Washington Bothell. His interests are critical race theory, prison studies, and contemporary social movements in the US, focused on prisons and "diverse ways in which imprisonment has shaped social movements, racism, and American politics since World War II." He received his Bachelor of Arts in interdisciplinary studies and Bachelor of Science in journalism from the University of Florida, and a doctorate in communications from the University of Pennsylvania.

Berger has written for Black Perspectives, Boston Review, Dissent, Jacobin, Truthout, Time, Salon.com and The Nation.

His books include:

Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era (2014) The Struggle Within: Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States (2014) Rethinking the American Prison Movement (2017) Remaking Radicalism: A Grassroots Documentary Reader of the United States, 1973-2001 (2020) Stayed on Freedom (2023)

Captive Nation was awarded in 2015 the James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians.