Daniel Immerwahr is an American historian, professor, and associate department chair of History at Northwestern University. His book, Thinking Small, won the Merle Curti Award. His book, How to Hide an Empire, was a national bestseller, one of the New York Times critic's top books of the year, and winner of the Robert H. Ferrell Prize. Early life and education Immerwahr originates from a Jewish family and is the great-grandson of a cousin of Clara Immerwahr, pioneering chemist and first wife of Fritz Haber. He completed an undergraduate degree at Columbia University, and a second undergraduate degree at King's College, Cambridge, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley. Career He is a professor of history at Northwestern University. His work has appeared in n+1, Slate, Jacobin, and Dissent. Works Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press 2015. , How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. , References External links Living people Year of birth missing (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