Dan Paz was a full-time lecturer in the School during the 2016-2017 and 2017–2018 academic years. Paz has taught part-time in the School since then.

Paz is a visual artist whose work and teaching explores the labor of lens-based production as a collaborative site where the intersections of the image-idea and lived experience are produced and contested. Their work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, among them Fábrica de Arte Cubano in Havana, Hayward Gallery in London, NYC Media Lab, and at Chicago’s Gene Siskel Film Center and Museum of Contemporary Art. Paz's project Arte No es Fácil received The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Connection grant in addition to support from The Open Practice Committee and a University of Chicago Arts grant. New work has been developed at many residencies including The Studios of Key West Artist Residency, Chicago Artist Coalitions’ Hatch Residency, The Luminary in St. Louis, MO, ACRE Artist Residency in Wisconsin, and 8550 in Ohio. Currently, they are the inaugural High Res Media Artist in residence with Lee Center for the Arts at Seattle University with an upcoming solo exhibition in January of 2019.