Daniel Immerwahr

Immerwahr grew up in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. He is Jewish and is first cousin twice removed of the pioneering chemist Clara Immerwahr (1870-1915), first wife of Nobel Prize winner Fritz Haber. 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. From 2011-2012, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University's Committee on Global Thought. == Career ==

He is a professor of history at Northwestern University. Since 2020, Immerwahr is a contributing writer at The New Yorker. He has also written for n+1, Slate, Jacobin, and Dissent. 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, , • How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019, , • Spanish: Cómo ocultar un imperio • Italian: ''L'impero nascosto: Breve storia dei Grandi Stati Uniti d'America'' • German: Das heimliche Imperium: Die USA als moderne Kolonialmacht == References ==