Dan has taught as a professor of both photographic practice and history at Ithaca College, The American University of Dubai, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), School of Visual Arts (SVA), Wittenberg University, and The School of Art at Bowling Green State University. He is currently an Assistant Lecturer at the Jesup Scott Honors College, University of Toledo.

His work entitled "Heidi and Lily, Ohio, 2014" was selected as a finalist and shortlisted piece for the 2016 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.

He is currently working on a portfolio of images from Tokyo, Japan.