Dan Berger is a writer, activist, and Ph.D. candidate living in Philadelphia. He is the author of Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (AK Press, 2006), editor of The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism (Rutgers University Press, 2010), and coeditor of Letters From Young Activists: Today’s Rebels Speak Out (Nation Books, 2005). His writings have also been published in International Journal of Communication, The Nation, Punishment & Society, WireTap, and Z, among elsewhere.

The grandson of Holocaust survivors, Berger has long been involved in struggles for social justice. From 2000 to 2003, he served as founding co-editor of ONWARD, a now-defunct internationally distributed quarterly anarchist newspaper based in Gainesville, Florida, that emerged out of the global justice movement. Berger has also been involved in an array of organizing efforts against war, racism, and the prison industrial complex. He is a longtime activist in support of U.S. political prisoners.

Berger completed his dissertation at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania in 2010. He earned a certificate in Africana Studies and a Master's Degree there as well. His dissertation, "'We Are the Revolutionaries': Visibility, Protest, and Racial Formation in 1970s Prison Radicalism," examines the ways black and Puerto Rican prisoners understood race and created antiracist social movements targeting their confinement. For this research, he was awarded a Mellon Dissertation Fellow through the Council on Library and Information Resources, as well as a graduate fellowship in the Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship and Constitutionalism.

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