History Building
Dept. 3198
1000 E. University Ave.
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: 307-766-5101
Email: uwhistory@uwyo.edu
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.
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 |
History Building
Dept. 3198
1000 E. University Ave.
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: 307-766-5101
Email: uwhistory@uwyo.edu