DANIEL IMMERWAHR - Northwestern University

Daniel Immerwahr / Curriculum Vitae / p. 6Review of Legitimizing Empire: Filipino Americans and U.S. Puerto Rican Cultural Critique, by FayeCaronan, Canadian Journal of History 51 (2016): 694–696.Response in Roundtable on Thinking Small, H--Diplo, H-Net Reviews, June 2016.Review of Planning Democracy: Agrarian Intellectuals and the Intended New Deal, by Jess Gilbert,Agricultural History 90 (2016): 152–153.“The Thirty Years’ Crisis: Anxiety and Fear in the Midcentury United States,” Modern IntellectualHistory 13 (2016): 287–298.Review of A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s, byDaniel J. Sargent, H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews, January 2016.“Thinking Small Won’t End Poverty,” Jacobin, Fall 2015, 75–79.“Growth vs. The Climate,” Dissent, Spring 2015, 110–118.Reprinted in Kurt Finsterbusch, ed., Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Social Issues, 19th ed.(New York: McGraw-Hill, 2016).“What Did You Do in the War, Doctor?: On Social Scientists and Social Change,” n 1 (online),March 2015.Review of The Empire Trap: The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American PropertyOverseas, 1898–2013, by Noel Maurer, Journal of American Studies 49 (2015): 201–203.“Dissertation Abstract: Quests for Community: The United States, Community Development,and the World, 1935–1965,” Journal of Economic History 73 (2013): 548–551.Review of Colored Cosmopolitanism: The Shared Struggle for Freedom in the United States and India, byNico Slate, Journal of Social History 47 (2013): 547–549.“Charting the Road to Davos: The Rise and Fall of Internationalism,” Dissent, Spring 2013, 89–94.“Modernization and Development in U.S. Foreign Relations,” Passport: The Society for Historians ofAmerican Foreign Relations Review, September 2012, 22–25.“The Foundation Statesmen,” n 1 (online), August 2012.Joint review of The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American WorldOrder, by David Ekbladh and The Hungry World: America's Cold War Battle against Poverty inCold War Asia, by Nick Cullather, Agricultural History 86 (2012): 106–108.“On B. R. Ambedkar and Black-Dalit Connections,” translated into Telugu and published inBahujana Keratalu, April 2012, 31–32.Review of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of An American Original, by Robin D. G. Kelley, TheSixties 3 (2010): 247-249.Fellowships and HonorsKAPLAN INSTITUTE FELLOW, NorthwesternUniversity, 2020–2021

Daniel Immerwahr / Curriculum Vitae / p. 7ROBERT H. FERRELL BOOK PRIZE, Societyfor Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2020FINALIST (SECOND PLACE), MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE, ColumbiaFINALIST, PROSE AWARD, AssociationUniversity, 2020of American Publishers, 2020ASSOCIATED STUDENT GOVERNMENT FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATOR HONOR ROLL,Northwestern University, 2019–2020SHORTLIST, SHARPE BOOKS NON-FICTION CROWN, HistoricalLAST LECTURE, NorthwesternWriters’ Association, 2019University Class of 2019ANDREW CARNEGIE FELLOW, CarnegieANNUAL BOOK AWARD, SocietyCorporation, 2017–2018for U.S. Intellectual History, 2016 (co-winner)MERLE CURTI AWARD, Organizationof American Historians, given yearly to the best book inintellectual history, 2016NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES FELLOW, HuntingtonRESEARCH FELLOWSHIP (declined),Library, 2015–2016Humanities Center, University of Pittsburgh, 2015–2016STUART L. BERNATH LECTURE PRIZE, Societyfor Historians of American Foreign Relations,annual award for “excellence in teaching and research in the field of foreign relations” by ayounger scholar, 2015DECOLONIZATION SEMINAR FELLOW, NationalHistory Center, Summer 2014HONORABLE MENTION, BETTY M. UNTERBERGER DISSERTATION PRIZE, Societyfor Historians ofAmerican Foreign Relations, award for best dissertation on any subject in U.S. foreignrelations, awarded biannually, 2013WEINBERG COLLEGE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING FRESHMAN ADVISING, NorthwesternUniversity,2013ALLAN NEVINS PRIZE IN AMERICAN ECONOMIC HISTORY, Economic HistoryAssociation, award forbest dissertation in U.S. or Canadian History, 2012POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW, Committeeon Global Thought, Columbia University,2011–2012MARSHALL SCHOLARSHIP,2002–2004TeachingI have taught undergraduate and graduate courses at Northwestern University; the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley; Columbia University; and San Quentin State Prison. My current coreundergraduate offerings are:GLOBAL HISTORY, 1750–THE PRESENT: THE AGE OF CARBON,U.S. FOREIGN RELATIONS,advanced lectureintroductory lecture

Daniel Immerwahr / Curriculum Vitae / p. 8Dissertation CommitteesCOMPLETED DISSERTATIONS,Alvita Akiboh (2019, chair)Kevin Baker (2019)Kyle Burke (2015)Taka Daitoku (2016)Michael Falcone (2019, chair)Alex Hobson (2017)Tom Meaney (Columbia, 2017)Jonathan Ng (2020)Wen-Qing Ngoei (2015)Yanqiu Zheng (2017)DISSERTATIONS IN PROGRESSMelanie HallMichael Hill (University of Kansas)Emily LyonPapers, Presentations, and Panels“The History of What?,” presidential plenary session on Erasing History, American HistoricalAssociation, Seattle, January 2021.“Rising Up, Burning Down: Arson and Enslavement in the United States,” Alice KaplanInstitute for the Humanities, Northwestern University, November 2020.“How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States,” Center for the Studyof Force and Diplomacy, Temple University, November 2020.“How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States,” History Club,University of Baltimore, October 2020.Interview of Carl Smith, Bookends & Beginnings, Evanston, October 2020.Interview of Julián Castro, Northwestern College Democrats, October 2020.“How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States,” Boston Public Library,October 2020.Interview of Rep. Charles Booker, Northwestern College Democrats, October 2020.“Empire of Dune: Indigeneity, Empire, and a U.S. Science Fiction Classic,” Evanston PublicLibrary, October 2020.“How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States,” Fortnightly Club,Chicago, October 2020.“The United States is an Empire,” Princeton University, October 2020.“Empire of Dune: Indigeneity, Empire, and a U.S. Science Fiction Classic,” NorthwesternInternational and Area Studies Colloquium, September 2020.

Daniel Immerwahr / Curriculum Vitae / p. 9“Manifest Destinies: Russian and American Empire,” discussion with Willard Sunderland,Center for Russian, East Europeans, and Eurasian Studies, University of Pittsburgh,September 2020.“How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States,” Chicago Chapter,Mensa, August 2020.“Colonial Space: Beyond the Logo Map,” Wende Museum, August 2020.Interview of Samuel Zipp, “Idealist Lessons on American Leadership,” Chicago Council onGlobal Affairs, August 2020.“Why Is There U.S. Colonialism in the Twenty-First Century?” panelist, Power 4 Puerto Rico,July 2020.“How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States,” Microsoft PoliticalAction Committee, June 2020.“How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States,” Indiana University,Advanced College Project U.S. History Training, June 2020.“How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States,” Parker School, May2020.“How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States,” Northwestern PoliticalUnion, May 2020.“How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States,” Friends CentralSchool, May 2020.“How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States,” Northwestern EmeritiOrganization, April 2020.“How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States,” CircumnavigatorsClub, March 2020.Commentator, “Volunteering, Internationalism, and Development: Non-Elite InternationalRelations at the Intersection of Decolonization and the Cold War,” American HistoricalAssociation conference, New York, January 2020.Global Antiquities Lunchtime Colloquium, Northwestern University, November 2019.“Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Guano but Were Afraid to Ask,” WillardResidential College, Northwestern University, November 2019.Roundtable, “How to Hide an Empire,” Society for U.S. Intellectual History conference,November 2019.“How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States,” Kellogg BusinessSchool, Northwestern University, October 2019.“Counting, Scale, and the U.S. Empire,” Northern Illinois University Graduate StudentConference, October 2019.

Daniel Immerwahr / Curriculum Vitae / p. 10“Telling the Story of the Greater United States,” Alfred Young keynote address, Northern IllinoisUniversity Graduate Student Conference, October 2019.“How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States,” Chicago HumanitiesFestival, October 2019.“How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States,” Society of FellowsSeminar, Huntington Library, Pasadena, October 2019.“How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States,” Current Events Class,Evanston, October 2019.“How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States,” Caxton Club,Chicago, October 2019.“Hot Off the Press” panel with Kate Wahl and Nitasha Sharma, Kaplan Humanities Center,Northwestern University, October 2019.“How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States,” Passport Series,Oakton Community College, September 2019.“How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States,” Humanities Center,University of Pittsburgh, September 2019.“Ten-Cent Ideology: Donald Duck Comics and U.S. Global Power,” Humanities Center,University of Pittsburgh, September 2019.“How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States,” Charles O. JacksonLecture, University of Tennessee, September 2019.“How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States,” Minnesota HistoricalSociety, Fort Snelling at Bdote, August 2019.“Writing about Empire in Public,” Minnesota Historical Society, Fort Snelling at Bdote, August2019.“How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States,” Evanston RotaryClub, August 2019.“How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States,” Occupy Evanston,Evanston Civic Center, June 2019.“Mapping Indian Country,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations conference,June 2019.“How to Hide an Empire,” conversation with Deborah Cohen, Printers Row Literary Festival,Chicago, IL, June 2019.“Last Lecture,” Northwestern Graduating Class of 2019, June 2019.“The Insular Cases and Their Shadow on U.S. History,” Equal Employment OpportunityCommission, Chicago office, June 2019.“Ten-Cent Ideology: Donald Duck Comic Books and U.S. Global Hegemony,” Ideologies andForeign Policy conference, Oregon State University, June 2019.

Daniel Immerwahr / Curriculum Vitae / p. 11“Ishtar and the Late Cold War,” Block Museum, Northwestern University, May 2019.“How to Hide an Empire,” Centuries and Sleuths Bookstore, Forest Park, IL, May 2019.“How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States,” Kinder Institute,University of Missouri, April 2019.“How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States,” University ofWashington, April 2019.“How to Hide an Empire,” Revolution Books, New York City, April 2019.“How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States,” Columbia University,April 2019.“How to Hide an Empire,” Politics & Prose, Washington, DC, April 2019.“How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States,” Wilson Center,Washington, DC, April 2019.“The Trouble with Empires,” Menconi Schoelkopf Art Gallery, New York, April 2019.“How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States,” Yale InternationalHistory Workshop, April 2019.“How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States,” Chicago GlobalAffairs Council, April 2019.“How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States,” University of Texas,Austin, March 2019.“How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States,” Southern MethodistUniversity, March 2019.“How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States,” Texas A&M, March2019.“How to Hide an Empire,” discussion with Jonathan Levy, Seminary Co-op, Chicago, IL, March2019.“How to Hide an Empire,” discussion with Geraldo Cadava, Bookends & Beginnings, Evanston,IL, March 2019.“How to Hide an Empire: Telling the Story of the Greater United States,” University of Illinois,Chicago, March 2019.“Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Guano but Were Afraid to Ask,” Notre Dame,March 2019.“Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Guano but Were Afraid to Ask,” WillardResidential College Fireside Chat, Northwestern University, February 2019.“Screwing In: Screw Threads, Standards, and the Making of U.S.-Centric Globalization,”American Historical Association conference, January 2019.

Daniel Immerwahr / Curriculum Vitae / p. 12“Empire of the Red Octagon: Stop Signs, Screw Threads, and the Making of U.S.-CentricGlobalization,” Comparative Historical Social Science Workshop, Northwestern University,November 2018.“Ten-Cent Ideology: Donald Duck Comic Books and U.S. Global Hegemony,” Writing Historythrough Children conference, Northwestern University, October 2018.“Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Guano but Were Afraid to Ask,” Conway FarmsGolf Club, Lake Forest, October 2018.“Bases as Borderlands: Sony, the Beatles, and Osama bin Laden as Products of the U.S. BasingSystem,” War and Society Workshop, Northwestern University, September 2018.Chair and commentator, “Partners or Foes?: The Nation-State, Corporations, and GlobalCapitalism” panel, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations conference, June2018.“The United States Is the Third World: The U.S. Empire in the Age of Decolonization,” Societyfor Historians of American Foreign Relations conference, June 2018.“The Globalization of Things: Standardization, World-Proofing, and Indigenization,” Society forHistorians of American Foreign Relations conference, June 2018.“The Overseas Territories: An Offstage Empire,” Cambridge History of America and the WorldConference, Philadelphia, June 2018.“Ten-Cent Ideology: Donald Duck Comic Books and U.S. Global Hegemony,” University ofChicago, Intellectual History Seminar, May 2018.“Fireball Express: How the United States Military Laid the Foundations for Globalization,”Fordham University, April 2018.“Power is Sovereignty, Mr. Bond: On the Use of Islands,” Northwestern Alumni Association,April 2018.“Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Guano But Were Afraid to Ask,” NorthwesternAlumni Association, April 2018.“Ten-Cent Ideology: Donald Duck Comic Books and U.S. Global Hegemony,” Duke HistoryColloquium, January 2018.“Warfare State in the Pacific: Hawai‘i and Martial Law during the Second World War,”American Historical Association conference, January 2018.Chair and commentator, “Sex, Gender, Intimacy, Race, and Lingering Questions of Justice inWorld War II’s Southwest Pacific Theater,” American Historical Association conference,January 2018.“Nobody Knows in America, Puerto Rico’s in America: Colonial Medicine, MilitantNationalism, and the U.S. Empire,” University of Connecticut—Storrs, Foreign PolicySeminar, September 2017.“A War of Transportation: The Second World War and Globalization,” Society for theHistorians of American Foreign Relations conference, Arlington, VA, June 2017.

Daniel Immerwahr / Curriculum Vitae / p. 13“From Us to U.S.: Global History and the Future of SHAFR,” Society for the Historians ofAmerican Foreign Relations conference, Arlington, VA, June 2017.“Nobody Knows in America, Puerto Rico’s in America,” Racing the International series,University of Chicago, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, May 2017.“Fireball Express: How the United States Military Laid the Foundations for Globalization,”Dartmouth University, April 2017.“Fireball Express: How the United States Military Laid the Foundations for Globalization,”Cornell University, April 2017.“Synthetica: A Technological Explanation for Decolonization,” Conflict and InternationalChange Seminar, Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas, April 2017.“Writing the Great American Dissertation,” Newberry Library Writing History Seminar,February 2017.“‘American Lives’: Pearl Harbor and the U.S. Empire,” Pearl Harbor: A Pacific Historyconference, Center for the Study of the U.S. Military, University of Kansas, December2016.“Plastic versus Empire: Synthetic Materials and Decolonization,” Economic History Seminar,Yale University, December 2016.Commentator, Jon Levy’s Ages of American Capitalism, Newberry History of Capitalism Seminar,September 2016.“Global English in the Postwar World,” International Seminar of Global History, UniversidadNacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru (via Skype), September 2016.“Language is a Virus: English as a Pillar of U.S. Postwar Hegemony,” Society for the Historians ofAmerican Foreign Relations conference, San Diego, CA, June 2016.“Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Guano But Were Afraid to Ask,” Presentationto Huntington Library Board of Trustees and Board of Overseers, March 2016.“Empire State of Mind,” Harvard International and Global History Seminar, March 2016.“Fertilizer Empire: The Quest for Guano and U.S. Overseas Possessions,” Society of FellowsSeminar, Huntington Library, January 2016.“The Greater United States,” Bernath Lecture, American Historical Association, January 2016.Chair, AHA Book Club: William Sewell’s Logics of History, American Historical Association,January 2016.“The Empire-Killers: Planes, Radio, and Plastic,” American Historical Association, January 2016.“Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Guano But Were Afraid to Ask,” HuntingtonLibrary, Brown Bag Seminar, October 2015.“The Imperial Republic: The United States before 1898,” Caltech Social Science HistorySeminar, October 2015.

Daniel Immerwahr / Curriculum Vitae / p. 14“Thinking Outside Modernization: New Work in Midcentury Social Thought,” U.S. IntellectualHistory conference, Washington, DC, October 2015.“Power is Sovereignty, Mister Bond: On the Use of Islands,” U.S. Bases and the Construction ofHegemony conference, October 2015.“Thinking Small,” American Political History Seminar, University of California, Berkeley,October 2015.Author Meets Critics Session, Thinking Small, Rural Sociological Society conference, Madison,August 2015.“Letting Go of Empire: The Independence of the Philippines,” Society for the Historians ofAmerican Foreign Relations conference, Arlington, VA, June 2015.Commentator, “Empire and Nationalism in Cold War Asia,” Society for the Historians ofAmerican Foreign Relations conference, Arlington, VA, June 2015.Chair, “Cold War Urbanism,” Society for the Historians of American Foreign Relationsconference, Arlington, VA, June 2015.“Grassroots Development: A Surprisingly Long and Checkered History,” Center for GlobalDevelopment, Washington, D.C., June 2015.“Development and the Environment: A Caricature, a Caution, and a Hope,” keynote lecture,Transplanting Modernity Workshop, Georgetown University, June 2015.“Development without Modernization,” University of Wisconsin–Madison, April 2015.Chair, “Insurgencies,” Conference on Insurgencies, Chabraja Center for Historical Studies,Northwestern University, April 2015.“Bringing Development Back Home: The United States and the Global War on Poverty,”American Historical Association conference, New York, January 2015.“Thinking Small,” University of Michigan, December 2014.“The Decolonization of the United States,” Social Science History Association conference,Toronto, November 2014.“The U.S. Empire,” History Channel Seminar Series, Newberry Library, October 2014.Chair, “Rule of Experts?: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Politics of Knowledge,” Society for theHistorians of American Foreign Relations conference, Lexington, KY, June 2014.Panelist, roundtable discussion, “Human Rights and the Cold War,” Society of the Historians ofAmerican Foreign Relations conference, Lexington, KY, June 2014.“The U.S. Empire,” Conf

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