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American historian (born 1980) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Immerwahr 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]
He 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.
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