Daniel Immerwahr

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.

Daniel Immerwahr
Academic background
Alma mater	Columbia University (BA) King's College, Cambridge (BA) University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Academic work
Discipline	History
Institutions	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

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

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

• 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]
  • Spanish: Cómo ocultar un imperio ISBN 9788412619836
  • Italian: L'impero nascosto: Breve storia dei Grandi Stati Uniti d'America
  • German: Das heimliche Imperium: Die USA als moderne Kolonialmacht ISBN 9783103972351