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Daniel Immerwahr

Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities

Ph.D., Berkeley, 2011
Curriculum Vitae

Interests

Geographic Field(s):  Global History; American History, Before 1900; American History, Since 1900

Thematic Field(s):  Economic and Labor History; War and Empire in History; History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

Principal Research Interest(s):  US foreign relations; global history; environmental history

Biography

Daniel Immerwahr (Ph.D., Berkeley, 2011) is Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities and Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence. He is the author of Thinking Small (Harvard, 2015) and How to Hide an Empire (FSG, 2019), both of which have won scholarly awards. Immerwahr is a contributing writer for The New Yorker and his essays have also appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, Harper's, The New Republic, and the New York Review of Books, among other places. He is writing a fire history of the United States.

More information and many of Immerwahr's writings are available at his website.

Affiliated Programs

Publications

Teaching Interests

Immerwahr regularly offers undergraduate courses on global history and U.S. foreign relations. He is not accepting graduate students as advisees but teaches graduate seminars and serves on doctoral committees. His syllabi are online here. He is on sabbatical until fall 2025.

Recent Awards and Honors

  • Charles Deering McCormick Professorship in Teaching Excellence, 2023–2026
  • Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2020
  • Finalist (second place), Mark Lynton History Prize, Columbia University, 2020
  • E. Leroy Hall Award for Excellence in Teaching, Weinberg College, Northwestern University, 2019–2020
  • Last Lecture, Northwestern University Class of 2019
  • Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, 2017-18.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, Huntington Library, 2015–2016.
  • Stuart L. Bernath Lecture Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations annual award for “excellence in teaching and research in the field of foreign relations” by a younger scholar, 2015.