Adam A. Blackler

Assistant Professor of History

portrait of UW History Professor Adam Blackler

Dr. Adam A. Blackler is an assistant professor of history at the University of Wyoming. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in 2017. Dr. Blackler’s research focuses on German colonialism in Africa and Holocaust & Genocide Studies. His current book project, entitled Heathens, “Hottentots,” and Heimat: The Boundaries of Germanness in Southwest Africa, 1842-1915, explores the transnational dimensions of German colonialism, race, and genocide in German Southwest Africa (DSWA, present-day Namibia), beginning with the arrival of Protestant missionaries in 1842 and concluding with Germany’s entry in World War I. The manuscript contends that after the façade of imperial fantasy gave way to colonial reality, German officials increasingly sought to fortify their presence in Africa using juridical and physical acts of violence. He is presently co-editing After the Imperialist Imagination: A Quarter Century of Research on Global Germany and Its Legacies, a forthcoming anthology on German interactions across the globe with Peter Lang Press (forthcoming 2020), and will publish “The Consequences of Genocide” in A Cultural History of Genocide: The Long Nineteenth Century with Bloomsbury Press (forthcoming 2020).

Dr. Adam A. Blackler CV 2019

Research Interests

Modern Germany

Colonial/Post-Colonial Africa

Holocaust & Genocide Studies

European Nationalism

Human Rights

Publications

Articles
“From Boondoggle to Settlement Colony: Hendrik Witbooi and the Evolution of Germany’s Imperial Project in Southwest Africa, 1884-1894” Central European History 50, No. 4 (December 2017), pp. 449-470

Volume Editor
After the Imperialist Imagination: A Quarter Century of Research on Global Germany and Its Legacies (Oxford: Peter Lang Press), edited and introduced with Sara Pugach and David Pizzo (Expected Spring 2020)

Book Chapters
“Consequences of Genocide,” A Cultural History of Genocide: The Long Nineteenth Century, Bloomsbury Press (Expected Fall 2020)

“Language, Empire, and Nation: Aspiring Settler-Colonists and the Heimat Ideal,” A Quarter Century of Research on Global Germany and Its Legacies (Oxford: Peter Lang Press) (Expected Spring 2020)