Daniel Immerwahr

Daniel Immerwahr is an American historian. His book, Thinking Small, won the Merle Curti Award.

Life

Immerwahr completed his undergraduate degree at Columbia University, a graduate degree at King's College, Cambridge and a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley. He is associate professor of history at Northwestern University. His work has appeared in n+1, Slate, Jacobin, and Dissent. Immerwahr is the great-grandson of a cousin of Clara Immerwahr, the first wife of Fritz Haber, a German-Jewish chemist who developed techniques for synthesizing ammonia, and poison gas in WWI.

Works

• 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