Ivan Greenberg was born in Ithaca, NY, and raised in New York City. He received a B.A. from Cornell University (1984) and a doctorate from the CUNY Graduate Center (1990). He has taught at several colleges in New York City. In addition to the books, "The Dangers of Dissent" (2010) and "Surveillance in America" (2012), he is working on a graphic novel (with Everett Patterson) titled "Eyes on You" to be published in 2017 by Fantagraphics Books. He also contributed chapters to several books:
--"The State Response to Occupy: Surveillance and Suppression," in Todd A. Comer, ed., What Comes after Occupy?: The Regional Politics of Resistance (2015).
--"Schools for Justice in the United States," in Ira Bogotch and Carolyn Shields, eds., International Handbook of Educational Leadership and Social (In)Justice (2014).
--"Reagan Revives FBI Spying," in Kimberly R. Moffitt and Duncan A. Campbell, eds., The 1980s: A Critical and Transitional Decade (2011).
--"Vocational Education, Work Culture, and the Children of European Immigrants during the 1930s," in Debra Meyers and Burke Miller, eds., Inequity in Education: A Historical Perspective (2009).
He published an article in the issue of Radical History devoted to "Historicizing 9/11" (Fall 2011). He wrote "Everyone is a Terrorist Now," Radical Criminology (Fall 2013); and "Impossible Unity," New Labor Forum (Winter 2014). In 2015, his articles appeared in The Journal of Social History and in American Quarterly. He is finishing a book, "Creating Suspects after 9/11."