Daniel Atwood is an adjunct professor in the Departments of History and Language and Literature at North Carolina Central University (NCCU). He specialized in twentieth-century radical social movements and labor in the United States, with additional interests in internationalism, imperialism, colonialism, race, and racism.
He earned a B.A. at William Peace University (WPU) and an M.A. in History from NCCU. His M.A. thesis, titled "Race, Reaction, and Radicalism: White Supremacy, Anti-Klan Organizing, and White Radical Antiracists in North Carolina, 1979-1989," examined the efforts of radical antiracist whites in combating white supremacy and extremist groups in North Carolina during the 1980s.