DANIEL IMMERWAHR - Northwestern University

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DANIEL IMMERWAHR

Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence

Northwestern University, Department of History 1881 Sheridan Road; Evanston, IL 60208-2220 daniel.immerwahr@northwestern.edu | (847) 491-7418

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, History, 2011 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, KING'S COLLEGE, History, 2004 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, History and Philosophy, 2002

Employment

2012?present NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, Department of History

Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities, 2022?present

Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence, 2023?26

Professor, 2020?22

Associate Professor, 2017?20

Assistant Professor, 2012?17

2024?present THE NEW YORKER, Contributing Writer

2011?12

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Postdoctoral Fellow, Committee on Global Thought

Books This Too Shall Burn: America in the Wooden Age, in progress. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,

2019). Paperback: Picador, 2020. New York Times Editors' Choice title. New York Times, Critics' Top Books of 2019 title. Chicago Tribune, Ten Best Books of 2019 title. New York Times bestseller, audio nonfiction, September 2019. Los Angeles Times bestseller, nonfiction, February 2019. Top 10 Amazon Charts bestseller, nonfiction, August 2019.

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Top 10 bestseller, nonfiction, August 2019. Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2020. Finalist (second place), Mark Lynton History Prize, Columbia University, 2020. Semifinalist, Goodreads Choice Award, Best History and Biography, 2019. Shortlist, Historical Writers' Association Sharpe Books Non-Fiction Crown, 2019. Finalist, PROSE Award, Association of American Publishers, 2020. Hampshire College Common Read, 2021. Publishers Weekly, Best Books of 2019 title. National Public Radio, Best Books of 2019 title. Barnes & Noble, Best Books of 2019 title. Daily Telegraph, History Books of the Year 2019 title. Smithsonian Magazine, Ten Best History Books of 2019 title. The Paris Review, Contributors' Favorite Books of 2019 title. Paste, Best Nonfiction Books of 2019 title. The Sunday Times, London, Best Recent Paperbacks title, January 2019. BBC History Magazine, Choice title. Public Books, Public Pick, 2019. Goodreads, Readers' Top Histories and Biographies of the Past Ten Years, based on ratings, reviews, and Goodreads' members virtual bookshelves, 2024. Audio: How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, narrated by Luis Moreno (Recorded Books, 2019). UK: How to Hide an Empire: A Short History of the Greater United States (London: The Bodley Head, 2019). Paperback: Vintage, 2020. German: Das Heimliche Imperium: Die USA als Moderne Kolonialmacht, trans. Laura Su Bischoff and Michael Bischoff (Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, 2019). Italian: L'Impero nascosto: Breve storia dei Grandi Stati Uniti d'America, trans. Chiara Veltri and Paolo Bassotti (Rome: Einaudi, 2020). Dutch: Amerika buiten de Verenigde Staten: Een koloniale geschiedenis, trans. Robert Vernooy (Amsterdam: Atlas Contact, 2020). Korean: , (Seoul: Munhakdongne, 2020). Chinese (complex): :--, trans. Lin Yujing (Taipei: Faces, 2021). Vietnamese: Lam Sao De Che Giau Mot De Quoc (Hanoi: Nha Nam, 2022).

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Spanish: C?mo ocultar un imperio: Una historia del Gran Estados Unidos (Madrid: Capit?n Swing, 2023).

Foreign rights purchased: Arabic: Beyt Elkotob; Chinese (simple): ThinKingdom; Japanese: Nagoya University Press; Thai: Arrow Publishing.

Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015). Paperback: 2018.

2016 Merle Curti Award, Intellectual History, Organization of American Historians.

2016 Annual Book Award, Society for U.S. Intellectual History (co-winner).

Articles and Chapters

"All That Is Solid Bursts into Flame: Capitalism and Fire in the Nineteenth-Century United States," Past & Present, forthcoming November 2024.

"The Border Crossed Us: Taking the Measure of a Migrating Country," in New Narratives on the Peopling of America, ed. T. Alex Aleinikoff and Alexandra D?lano Alonso (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024), 163?77.

"Burning Down the House: Slavery and Arson in America," Journal of American History 110 (2023): 449?73.

2024 Binkley-Stephenson Award, Organization of American Historians, for the best article in the JAH during the preceding year.

Editor's Choice article, December 2023.

"The United States is an Empire," in Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Lies and Legends about Our Past, ed. Julian Zelizer and Kevin Kruse (New York: Basic Books, 2023), 85?97.

New York Times bestseller, January 2023.

"The Galactic Vietnam: Technology, Modernization, and Empire in George Lucas's Star Wars," in Ideology in U.S. Foreign Relations: New Histories, ed. Christopher McKnight Nichols and David Milne (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022), 425?51.

International Studies Association Joseph Fletcher Prize for Best Edited Book in Historical International Relations, 2022.

"Philippine Independence in U.S. History: A Car, Not a Train," Pacific Historical Review 91 (2022): 220?48.

"The Quileute Dune: Frank Herbert, Indigeneity, and Empire," Journal of American Studies 56 (2022): 191?216.

"Frontier, Ocean, Empire: Expansionist Vistas in Winslow Homer's United States," in Stephanie L. Herdrich and Sylvia Yount, Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2022), 21?26.

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"The Territorial Empire," in Mark P. Bradley, ed., Cambridge History of America and the World, vol. 3, 1900?1945, vol. ed. Brooke L. Blower and Andrew Preston (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 62?84.

"The Iron Hand of Power: Daniel Burnham and Architectural Imperialism in the Philippines," Architectural History 64 (2021): 163?86.

"Ten-Cent Ideology: Donald Duck Comic Books and the U.S. Challenge to Modernization," Modern American History 3 (2020): 1?26.

"`American Lives': Pearl Harbor and the U.S. Empire," in Beyond Pearl Harbor: A Pacific History, ed. Beth Bailey and David Farber (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2019), 39?57.

"The Ugly American: Peeling the Onion of an Iconic Cold War Text," Journal of American?East Asian Relations 26 (2019): 7?20.

"The Moon Landing: Twilight of Empire," Modern American History 1 (2018): 129?33.

"The Greater United States: Territory and Empire in U.S. History," Diplomatic History 40 (2016): 373?91.

"Polanyi in the United States: Peter Drucker, Karl Polanyi, and the Midcentury Critique of Economic Society," Journal of the History of Ideas 70 (2009): 445?66.

Japanese: --, trans. Yoshida Masayuki, 28 (2010): 141?59.

Featured article on JSTOR Daily, 7 December 2017.

"The Fact/Narrative Distinction and Student Examinations in History," The History Teacher 41 (2008): 199?206.

"Caste or Colony?: Indianizing Race in the United States," Modern Intellectual History 4 (2007): 275?301.

Reprinted in serial in Bheem Patrika, 2012.

Selected as one of Modern Intellectual History's ten "Highlights of a Decade," 2014.

"The Politics of Architecture and Urbanism in Postcolonial Lagos, 1960?1986," Journal of African Cultural Studies 19 (2007): 165?86.

"History and the Sciences," with Philip Kitcher, in Daniel Herwitz and Michael Kelly, eds., Action, Art, History: Engagements with Arthur Danto (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), 198?226.

Reprinted in Explanation in the Special Sciences: The Case of Biology and History, ed. Andreas Hutterman, Oliver Scholz, and Marie I. Kaiser (New York: Springer, 2014).

Essays, Reviews, and Other Media

"The Holy Man of Silicon Valley," The Atlantic, October 2024.

"The Power of the Pirates," The New Yorker, 22 July 2024, 12?16.

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"Everything in Hand: When the C.I.A. Messes Up," The New Yorker, 17 June 2024, 53?57. "Mother Trees and Socialist Forests: Is the `Wood-Wide Web' a Fantasy?" The Guardian, The

Long Read, 23 April 2024. French: "Les arbres m?res et les for?ts sociales: le ?plan de vie des forets? est-il un fantasme?" M?dias Citoyens Diois, April 2024. Adapted as a Guardian Long Read podcast, June 2024. "Make It Hurt: What Frantz Fanon and Ian Fleming Agreed On," The New Yorker, 15 January 2024, 50?55. "Zoning Out," on economic zones, New York Review of Books, 23 November 2023, 22?25. German: "Zonenbildung," Merkur, January 2024. "Your Lying Eyes: What the Doomsayers Get Wrong about Deepfakes," The New Yorker, 20 November 2023, 54?59. "The Pitchfork of History: Beyond the Myth of Rural America," The New Yorker, 23 October 2023, 26?29. Spanish: "M?s all? del mito de los Estados Unidos rural," trans. Alejandro Garvie, Nuevos Papeles, October 2023. "Development Meets the Environment," foreword to Transplanting Modernity, ed. Jennifer Smith and Thomas Robertson (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023). "Home Fires," on Waco, The New Yorker, 8 May 2023, 74?78. Best History Writing of 2023 selection, Bunk. "Did George Washington Burn New York?" The Atlantic, March 2023. "Are We Really Prisoners of Geography?" The Guardian, The Long Read, 10 November 2022. Adapted as a Guardian Long Read podcast, November 2022. Italian: "Siamo prigionieri della geograf?a?" cover story, Internazionale, 1 December 2022. Russian: " ?" inoSMI, 6 January 2023. "Contest or Conquest?: A Provocative History of Indigenous America," Harper's Magazine, November 2022, 76?81. "The Other Side of the Frontier: Metropolitan Fantasies of Racial Union," Diplomatic History 46 (2022): 821--23. "Wielding Wheat: A New History Makes a Case for the World-Ordering Power of Wheat," New York Review of Books, 21 July 2022. Spanish: "El trigo, arma y alimento: una historia," Libros peruanos, 11 July 2022. French: "Qui s?me le bl? r?colte la puissance," Books, November 2022.

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