Dr. Dan Berger, professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, is recipient of the 2025 Outstanding Community-Engaged Scholar Award. As a young activist, Dr. Dan Berger found special inspiration in the Black visionaries of the 鈥�60s and 鈥�70s. So how, he wondered, did we get here? 鈥淗ere鈥� is an era of mass incarceration, he said, in which more Americans have criminal records than have union cards. And he has made it his life鈥檚 work to answer that question….