Conversations with the Dean
Featuring Professor Daniel Immerwahr
Professor Daniel Immerwahr and Dean Adrian Randolph discuss a variety of subjects including why the teaching of history is essential and his upcoming book on fire history in the United States.
Daniel Immerwahr is the Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities and Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence. He is a scholar of U.S. and global history. His first book, the award-winning Thinking Small, is about U.S. grassroots development campaigns, at home and abroad. His second, How to Hide an Empire, is a narrative history of the United States that brings its overseas territories into the story. That book was a national bestseller and a New York Times critic’s choice for one of the best books of 2019; it has been translated into seven languages. Immerwahr writes frequently for magazines and newspapers; his work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Guardian, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, Harper’s, and the New York Review of Books, among other places. He is now writing a fire history of the United States. |
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Adrian Randolph is dean of the Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and Henry Wade Rogers Professor of the Humanities. Dean Randolph's research focuses on the art and architecture of the medieval Renaissance Italy. He joined Northwestern in 2015 from Dartmouth College. There, he served as the associate dean of the faculty for the Arts and Humanities, chair of the Department of Art History, and director of the college’s Leslie Center for the Humanities. |
