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

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 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.

Works

Books

• 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^[6][7]

Articles

• "Your Lying Eyes: People now use A.I. to generate fake videos indistinguishable from real ones. How much does it matter?", The New Yorker, 20 November 2023, pp. 54–59. "If by 'deepfakes' we mean realistic videos produced using artificial intelligence that actually deceive people, then they barely exist. The fakes aren't deep, and the deeps aren't fake. [...] A.I.-generated videos are not, in general, operating in our media as counterfeited evidence. Their role better resembles that of cartoons, especially smutty ones." (p. 59.)