Dan has served on the Association of Moving Image Archivists board of directors (2004-06) and the National Film Preservation Board (2005-2010). In 2011, he programmed the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar's annual week of documentary screenings. In 2012, he was named an Academy Film Scholar. Since 1999, he has organized the biennial Orphan Film Symposium, bringing together archivists, academics, and artists to save, screen, and study neglected media artifacts. The Orphan Film Symposium has generously donated funds to support the work of the Albanian Cinema Project. (Founding Board Member)