Adam A. Blackler

Associate Professor of History


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Dr. Adam A. Blackler is an associate professor of history at the University of Wyoming. He is a historian of modern Germany and southern Africa, whose research emphasizes the transnational dimensions of imperial occupation and settler-colonial violence in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Dr. Blackler’s scholarly and teaching interests also include the political and social dynamics of Germany’s Weimar Republic (1919-1933) and the interdisciplinary fields of holocaust & genocide Studies and international human rights.

 

His first book monograph, entitled An Imperial Homeland: Forging German Identity in Southwest Africa, appeared in September 2022 in the Pennsylvania State University Press’s series “Germans Beyond Europe” sponsored by the Max Kade Research Institute. Among Dr. Blackler’s other recent publications include a co-edited anthology, entitled After the Imperialist Imagination: Two Decades of Research on Global Germany and Its Legacies and a chapter in the multi-volume collection, A Cultural History of Genocide. He was the recipient of the University of Wyoming’s Extraordinary Merit in Research Award in 2022. Dr. Blackler is presently researching a second book-length project, entitled “We remain loyal to the Fatherland!”: Outposts of Empire in Weimar Germany, which explores how imperial adherents publicly assuaged their humiliated national ego against a backdrop of military defeat, political collapse, and economic catastrophe between 1919 and 1933.

 

Dr. Blackler offers a wide range of survey, upper-division, capstone, online, study abroad, and graduate courses in modern European and world history. Course topics include European colonialism, nationalism and transnationalism, comparative fascism and genocide, Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, Weimar Germany, and human rights and crimes against humanity.

 

Dr. Adam A. Blackler CV

 

Research Interests

Modern Germany

Colonial/Post-Colonial Africa

Weimar Germany

Holocaust & Genocide Studies

European Nationalism

Human Rights

 


 CONTACT:

   History Building

   Room 256

   307-766-5142

   ablackle@uwyo.edu

 
Contact Us

History Building

Dept. 3198

1000 E. University Ave.

Laramie, WY 82071

Phone: 307-766-5101

Email: uwhistory@uwyo.edu

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