Daniel Immerwahr
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 |
Daniel Immerwahr (born May 21, 1980) 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
[edit]Immerwahr grew up in Philadelphia. He 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
[edit]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
[edit]Books
[edit]- 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
[edit]- "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.)
References
[edit]- ^ Immerwahr, Daniel (2019). How to Hide an Empire: Geography and Power in the Greater United States. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-3741-7214-5 – via "A poignant story" by Mano Singham at FreethoughtBlogs.
- ^ "Immerwahr Wins Marshall Scholarship". Columbia Daily Spectator. Retrieved 2020-12-21.
- ^ "Daniel Immerwahr". Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. Department of History - Northwestern University. Retrieved August 16, 2019.
- ^ "Daniel Immerwahr". Jacobin. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
- ^ "Daniel Immerwahr". Dissent Magazine. Retrieved 2019-06-11.,
- ^ Borrelli, Christopher. "Almost everything you know about U.S. borders is wrong". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
- ^ Szalai, Jennifer (2019-02-13). "'How to Hide an Empire' Shines Light on America's Expansionist Side". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
External links
[edit]- ""How to Hide an Empire": Daniel Immerwahr on the History of the Greater United States". Democracy Now!. March 5, 2019. Retrieved August 16, 2019.