Daniel Grinberg

Daniel Grinberg is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Media at Risk within the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a PhD in Film and Media Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), an M.A. in Communication and Culture from Indiana University, and a B.A. in English Literature and Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia. His research focuses on government media and censorship, war and security media, surveillance, documentary media, media activism, and environmental media studies, with global and U.S.-centric perspectives.

Grinberg's current work centers on his book project, Partial Disclosures: Documentary Media and the Freedom of Information Act, which explores how documentary media and FOIA disclosures shape public knowledge of covert security practices. He has also written on topics such as terror watchlists, predictive security algorithms, and the militainment network of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.

• Co-editor of the “Surveillance States” issue of Media Fields Journal
• Co-organizer of the UC Humanities Research Institute’s “War, Security, and Digital Media” Graduate Working Group
• Co-organizer of conferences including Power Dynamics: 2016 Media and the Environment and Ruins: 2017 Media Fields Conference