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 and associate chair of the history department.
Daniel Immerwahr | |
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| Born | May 21, 1980 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (PhD) King's College, Cambridge (BA) Columbia University (BA) |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
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
editImmerwahr grew up in Philadelphia. He is Jewish and is first cousin twice removed of Clara Immerwahr, the pioneering chemist and first wife of Fritz Haber.[1] He completed an undergraduate degree at Columbia University in 2002, and a second undergraduate degree at King's College, Cambridge in 2004, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley in 2011.[2] From 2011-2012, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University's Committee on Global Thought.[3]
Career
editHe is a professor of history at Northwestern University.[4]
His work has appeared in n+1, Slate, Jacobin,[5] Dissent,[6] and The New Yorker.
Books
edit- 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[7][8]
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ "Immerwahr Wins Marshall Scholarship". Columbia Daily Spectator. Archived from the original on 2021-04-12. Retrieved 2020-12-21.
- ^ "David Immerwahr CV" (PDF). Congress.gov.
- ^ "Daniel Immerwahr". Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. Department of History - Northwestern University. Retrieved August 16, 2019.
- ^ "Daniel Immerwahr". Jacobin. Archived from the original on 2019-07-03. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
- ^ "Daniel Immerwahr". Dissent Magazine. Archived from the original on 2019-08-01. Retrieved 2019-06-11.,
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.