Daniel Immerwahr

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Daniel Immerwahr
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
King's College, Cambridge (BA)
Columbia University (BA)
GenreNon-fiction

Daniel Immerwahr is an American historian, professor, and associate department chair of history at Northwestern University.

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His book Thinking Small won the Merle Curti Award. His How to Hide an Empire 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 Philadelphia. He originates from a Jewish family and is the great-grandson of a cousin of Clara Immerwahr, pioneering chemist and first wife of Fritz Haber. [1] He completed an undergraduate degree at Columbia University, and a second undergraduate degree at King's College, Cambridge, where he was a Marshall Scholar, [2] and a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley.

Career

He is a professor of history at Northwestern University. [3]

His work has appeared in n+1 , Slate , Jacobin , [4] Dissent , [5] and The New Yorker .

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References

  1. 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 via "A poignant story" by Mano Singham at FreethoughtBlogs.
  2. "Immerwahr Wins Marshall Scholarship". Columbia Daily Spectator. Retrieved 2020-12-21.
  3. "Daniel Immerwahr". Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences . Department of History - Northwestern University. Retrieved August 16, 2019.
  4. "Daniel Immerwahr". Jacobin . Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  5. "Daniel Immerwahr". Dissent Magazine . Retrieved 2019-06-11.,
  6. Borrelli, Christopher. "Almost everything you know about U.S. borders is wrong". Chicago Tribune . Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  7. 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.