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| Alma mater | Columbia University (BA) King's College, Cambridge (BA) University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
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| Discipline | History |
| Institutions | Northwestern 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.
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]
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.
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