Daniel is an adjunct instructor within the Steinhardt School's Department of Media, Communication, and Culture. He has a PhD in Communication, Culture, & Media from Drexel University, with a dissertation that focused on the visual organization of surfaces in the context of modern protest movements. His research interests center around ways that people make themselves visible—culturally, socially, and politically—and how that process is often a result of contention. He is also interested in critical visual studies, the confluence between pop culture and protest among global youth, as well as cinema studies and film analysis.