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 atNorthwestern University.
His bookThinking Smallwon theMerle Curti Award.HisHow to Hide an Empirewas a national bestseller, one of theNew York Timescritics' 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 ofClara Immerwahr,pioneering chemist and first wife ofFritz Haber.[1]He completed an undergraduate degree atColumbia University,and a second undergraduate degree atKing's College, Cambridge,where he was aMarshall Scholar,[2]and a doctorate at theUniversity of California, Berkeley.
Career
[edit]He is a professor of history atNorthwestern University.[3]
His work has appeared inn+1,Slate,Jacobin,[4]Dissent,[5]andThe New Yorker.
Works
[edit]Books
[edit]- Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community DevelopmentCambridge, Mass.Harvard University Press2015.ISBN978-0-6742-8994-9,OCLC949790596
- How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States,New York:Farrar, Straus and Giroux,2019.ISBN978-0-3741-7214-5,OCLC1088916388[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 usingartificial intelligencethat 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 ofcartoons,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.ISBN978-0-3741-7214-5– via "A poignant story" by Mano Singham at FreethoughtBlogs.
- ^"Immerwahr Wins Marshall Scholarship".Columbia Daily Spectator.Retrieved2020-12-21.
- ^"Daniel Immerwahr".Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.Department of History - Northwestern University.RetrievedAugust 16,2019.
- ^"Daniel Immerwahr".Jacobin.Retrieved2019-06-11.
- ^"Daniel Immerwahr".Dissent Magazine.Retrieved2019-06-11.,
- ^Borrelli, Christopher."Almost everything you know about U.S. borders is wrong".Chicago Tribune.Retrieved2019-06-11.
- ^Szalai, Jennifer (2019-02-13)."'How to Hide an Empire' Shines Light on America's Expansionist Side ".The New York Times.ISSN0362-4331.Retrieved2019-06-11.
External links
[edit]- ""How to Hide an Empire": Daniel Immerwahr on the History of the Greater United States ".Democracy Now!.March 5, 2019.RetrievedAugust 16,2019.
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- Living people
- 20th-century American historians
- 20th-century American male writers
- 21st-century American historians
- 21st-century American male writers
- Columbia College (New York) alumni
- Friends' Central School alumni
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- 20th-century American writers
- Northwestern University faculty
- American male non-fiction writers