Daniel Ewert

Dan Ewert joins the Juilliard faculty as an assistant professor of liberal arts and history. His research examines the history of biometric surveillance in 20th-century America, showing how techniques like fingerprinting connect the history of the carceral state, workplace discrimination, immigration, and social movements. He holds a BA in history from Yale University and an MA in history from Princeton University, where he is also completing his PhD. During graduate school he was the Ambrose Monell Foundation Fellow in Technology and Democracy at the Jefferson Scholars Foundation and a Mellon Foundation Fellow at the Museum of the City of New York. His Princeton teaching experience includes serving as a fellow at the Princeton Writing Center, the Center for Teaching and Learning, and the Freshman Scholars Institute.

Before graduate school he worked as an investigator for public defender agencies in Brooklyn and New Orleans, where he helped advocate for hundreds of clients in criminal and immigration cases. He also worked as an educator in three New York City museums and has collaborated on several public history projects that allow broad audiences to connect with the work of academic historians. His public-facing scholarship has been published in the Washington Post and at the Museum of the City of New York.