He is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at Loyola University Chicago and also a graduate of Rhodes College. Dane wants to understand how the political mind works, so he studies political cognition, neuropolitics, and the emotion of disgust in politics. His dissertation pushes at the edge of cognitive neuroscience and political psychology using survey data, behavioral experiments, and electroencephalography (reading electrical signals from the scalp). His teaching is focused on fostering intellectual growth and making students better at what they do. He has also found that there is no better way to learn than to teach.