David A. Messenger, Associate
Professor of History and Global & Area Studies
Ph.D., M.A., University of Toronto
B.A., McGill University
dmesseng@uwyo.edu • 766-6276 • History
Room 258 and
Cheney International Center 204
David A. Messenger is a specialist in
twentieth century international/global and European history. His research and
teaching center on political and social transitional periods and regime change,
and collective memory of past injustices, in four periods of history: from war
to dictatorship in Spain in the 1930s and 1940s; in the European transition to
peace following the Second World War; in the democratic transition in Spain in
the 1970s; and in the similar processes that have occurred in Latin America,
Central and Eastern Europe since the 1980s. He is most interested in exploring
how the international system, domestic politics and societies at large deal
with issues of justice and democratization following the end of wars and/or authoritarian
and dictatorial regimes. He has held fellowships from the Government of Spain,
the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum in Washington DC and the Mershon Center for International
Strategic Studies at the Ohio State University. As well as being in the History
Department, he is a member of the Global & Area Studies Program.
Regular Course Offerings:
HIST/RELI 2080 Holocaust
HIST 3020 Historical Methods
HIST 4190/ 5190 Contemporary Europe (since 1945)
HIST 4310/ 5310 Second World War in Europe
HIST 4315/5315 Central Europe and the Holocaust (taught in Germany and
Poland)HIST 4320/5320 Memory and Identity in 20th Century EuropeHIST/INST 4380/5380 International History of Human Rights
Graduate level classes in Spanish Civil War, International Cold War and Civilians,War and the 20th Century.
Publications:
Books
David A. Messenger, L'Espagne
Républicaine: French Policy and Spanish Republicanism in Liberated
France (Brighton, UK and Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2008)
Articles and Book Chapters
David A. Messenger, ‘Beyond
War Crimes: Denazification, ‘Obnoxious' Germans and US Policy in Franco's Spain
after the Second World War' Contemporary
European History 20:4 (2011).
David A. Messenger, ‘Relations with Spain and the European Neutrals' in William Pederson,
ed., The Blackwell Companion to Franklin D. Roosevelt Oxford:
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing (2011).
David A. Messenger, ‘Exporting Republicanism: The French Government's
Defense of Political Prisoners in Franco's Spain' in Matthew P. Berg and Maria
Mesner, eds., After Fascism: European Case Studies in Politics, Society and
Identity since 1945 Berlin-Munster-Vienna-Zurich-London: Lit Verlag (2009).
David A. Messenger, ‘A Real Break or Reluctant Parting? France, the United
States and the Spanish Question, 1945-1948' Journal of European Studies 38:2
(2008).
David A. Messenger, ‘Against the Grain: Special Operations Executive in
Spain, 1941-1945' in Neville Wylie, ed., The Politics and Strategy of
Clandestine War: Special Operations Executive, 1940-1946 London: Routledge
(2007).
David A. Messenger, ‘Our Spanish Brothers' or ‘As at Plombières': France and
the Spanish Opposition to Franco, 1945-1948' French History 20:1
(2006).
David A. Messenger, ‘Dividing Europe: European Integration and the
Impact of the Cold War' in Desmond Dinan, ed., Origins and Evolution of
the European Union Oxford: Oxford University Press (2006).
David A. Messenger, ‘Rival Faces of France: Refugees, Would-be Allies
and Economic Warfare in Spain, 1942-1944' International History
Review 27:1 (2005).
David A. Messenger, “La colònia alemanya, els consolats nord-americans i la desnazificació
a Vigo i Bilbao
després de la Segona Guerra Mundial" (“The
German Colony, American Consulates and Denazification in Vigo and Bilbao after
the Second World War”) Segle XX: Revista catalana de história 5 (2012)
Book reviews
American Historical Review, Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Canadian Journal of
History, Film and History, International History Review, Intelligence and National Security,
Journal of Contemporary History, Journal of Military History, H-Net, Reviews: New Books in History
Service:
College of Arts & Sciences Self-Designed Major Committee
Book Review editor (Modern & Cross-Disciplinary), Bulletin for
Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
Affiliations:
Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical StudiesGerman Studies AssociationInternational Studies Association
