Daniel Immerwahr
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Daniel Immerwahr is a historian at Northwestern University, where he is the Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities and Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence. His most recent book, the award-winning How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019), was a New York Times critics’ top book of 2019 and has been translated into seven languages.
At Radcliffe, Immerwahr is writing an environmental history of the United States that focuses on its relationship to wood and fire. The country, for much of its history, enjoyed an uncommon abundance of timber. And it was, as a result, alarmingly combustible.
Immerwahr received his PhD in US history from the University of California, Berkeley. His writing has appeared in the Atlantic, the Guardian, Harper’s, the New Republic, the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, among other places.
