Daniel Immerwahr

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Daniel Immerwahr
Academic background
Alma materColumbia University (BA)
King's College, Cambridge (BA)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
InstitutionsNorthwestern University

Daniel Immerwahr (born May 21, 1980) is an American historian and author. He is the Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities at the Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences at Northwestern University.

His first book, Thinking Small, was published in 2015 and won the Merle Curti Award. His second book, How to Hide an Empire (2019), was a national bestseller, one of the New York Times critics' top books of the year, and winner of the Robert H. Ferrell Prize.

Early life and education

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Immerwahr grew up in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.[1] He is Jewish and is first cousin twice removed of Clara Immerwahr, the pioneering chemist and first wife of Fritz Haber.[2] He received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University in 2002, before obtaining a second undergraduate degree at King's College, Cambridge in 2004 as a Marshall Scholar. In 2011, Immerwahr received a Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley.[3] From 2011-2012, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University's Committee on Global Thought.[4]

Career

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He is a professor of history at Northwestern University.[5] Since 2020, Immerwahr is a contributing writer at The New Yorker.[6] He has also written for n+1, Slate, Jacobin, and Dissent.[7][8] His work has largely focused on American history.

Books

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  • Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-6742-8994-9, OCLC 949790596
  • How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019, ISBN 978-0-3741-7214-5, OCLC 1088916388[9][10]

References

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  1. ^ https://evanstonroundtable.com/2021/11/27/northwestern-history-professor-daniel-immerwahr-interview/
  2. ^ Immerwahr, Daniel (2019). How to Hide an Empire: Geography and Power in the Greater United States. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-3741-7214-5. Archived from the original on 2019-08-16. Retrieved 2019-08-16 – via "A poignant story" by Mano Singham at FreethoughtBlogs.
  3. ^ "Immerwahr Wins Marshall Scholarship". Columbia Daily Spectator. Archived from the original on 2021-04-12. Retrieved 2020-12-21.
  4. ^ "David Immerwahr CV" (PDF). Congress.gov.
  5. ^ "Daniel Immerwahr". Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. Department of History - Northwestern University. Retrieved August 16, 2019.
  6. ^ Nast, Condé. "Daniel Immerwahr". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2025-08-13.
  7. ^ "Daniel Immerwahr". Dissent Magazine. Archived from the original on 2019-08-01. Retrieved 2019-06-11.,
  8. ^ "Daniel Immerwahr". Jacobin. Archived from the original on 2019-07-03. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  9. ^ Borrelli, Christopher. "Almost everything you know about U.S. borders is wrong". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on 2020-11-07. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  10. ^ Szalai, Jennifer (2019-02-13). "'How to Hide an Empire' Shines Light on America's Expansionist Side". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
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