Daniel Immerwahr is being honored with the 2023 University Teaching Award. The annual recognition is given to professors who demonstrate excellence and innovation in undergraduate teaching. Immerwahr is the Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities in the department of history …
Daniel Immerwahr was honored as the Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities in the department of history during an investiture ceremony of endowed chairs on March 9.
Daniel Immerwahr (Ph.D., Berkeley, 2011) is Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities. His …
New Ian Sanders Chair of History will teach Sanders Seminar starting this fall
As a Northwestern undergraduate, Ian Sanders ’91 relished the intimate seminars he took with history professors like Lacey Baldwin Smith, Peter Hayes, and Karen Halttunen at the …
Professor Daniel Immerwahr recently published an op-ed in The Guardian which outlines correlations between historical political conflict and physical geography.
In the article, Immerwahr describes how much of the world’s political history has been the direct result of physical geography. …
History Professor Daniel Immerwahr, recently wrote a piece in The Guardian on why a complacent attitude about nuclear weapons is dangerous.
In the article, Immerwahr details the history of nuclear weapons and the discussion surrounding their use in the …
Weinberg College community members recently were in the media, sharing their expertise. View the articles below.
Long before movies and screens, Chicago went nuts for something called cycloramas
Chicago Tribune 10/19
The Chicago History Museum cyclorama is a small stunner …
Professor Daniel Immerwahr, of the Department of History, discussed the environmentalism of “Dune” in a guest essay for The New York Times.
Immerwahr notes that the “parched wasteland” that author Frank Herbert created in the novel feels all too familiar. …