CURRICULUM VITAE ADAM A. BLACKLER

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE ADAM A. BLACKLER History Department Phone: Heller Hall th Avenue S. Minneapolis, MN EDUCATION Twin Cities Ph.D., History, expected November 2015 Dissertation: Heathens, Hottentots, and Heimat: Colonial Contact and the Formation of German Identity in Southwest Africa, University of Wyoming M.A., History, 2009 Thesis: Destruction of Life Unworthy of Life: Rassenhygiene, Aktion T4, and the Transfer of the Final Solution to Occupied Poland, Carroll College B.A., History and Political Science, 2006 (Honors) PUBLICATIONS Book Reviews 2015 Review of John C. G. Röhl and Sheila De Bellaige, Kaiser Wilhelm II, : a concise life, for the WAR list/h-net [Forthcoming] 2014 Review of Guy Tourlamain, Völkisch Writers and National Socialism: A Study of Rightwing Political Culture in Germany , for GERMAN list/h-net Online Collections 2012 Introductions for documents in the online collection German History in Documents and Images: Weimar Republic (1918/ ), Eric D. Weitz and Eric Roubinek, eds., German Historical Institute FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS External (National and International) 2014 Zentren für Deutschland- und Europastudien Conference Travel Award Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst, Wende-Punkte : Internationale Perspektiven auf Deutschland und Europa, Berlin, Germany, June 2014 ($1,400) 2012 Dissertation Research Fellowship Central European History Society (CEHS), Columbia University, March 2012 ($6,000) 2010 Intensive Language Fellowship Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), April 2010 ($1,500) 1 of 5

2 2010 Most Outstanding Conference Paper Award Fifth Annual James A. Rawley Graduate Conference in the Humanities, April Dorot Foundation Summer Graduate Research Assistant Fellowship Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (CAHS), United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), April 2008 ($7,500) Internal (Graduate Programs) 2013 Bernard & Fern Badzin Research Fellowship for Holocaust & Genocide Studies Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies,, January 2013 ($8,000 + benefits) 2011 Graduate Research Partnership Program Fellowship College of Liberal Arts,, April 2011 ($5,000) 2009 Bernard & Fern Badzin Graduate Fellowship for Holocaust & Genocide Studies Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies,, September 2009 ($7,500 + benefits) 2009 Outstanding Departmental Service Award College of Arts and Sciences, University of Wyoming, April 2009 ($500) 2008 Dr. Scholl Honors Graduate Research Scholarship University of Wyoming, College of Arts and Sciences, September 2008 ($2,000) 2008 Graduate Summer Independent Study Award College of Arts and Sciences, University of Wyoming, March 2008 ($5,000) 2008 Larson-McGee Summer Research Award Department of History, University of Wyoming, March 2008 ($1,750) 2008 Long-Findeisen History Honors Scholarship Department of History, University of Wyoming, January 2008 ($1,500) 2007 William R. Steckel History Honors Award Department of History, University of Wyoming, December 2007 ($1,250) 2007 Paul Stock Foundation Independent Study Award College of Arts and Sciences, University of Wyoming, November 2007 ($1,500) CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2015 Aspiring Auslandsdeutsche : Colonial Petitions and the Language of German Imperialism, , Panel: Germans in the World: Are Transnational Studies Still German Studies? 39 th Annual German Studies Association (GSA) Meeting, Washington, D.C., October 2015 [Forthcoming] 2015 The Abstract Nakedness of Being Human : Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, 2015 Summer Institute for Secondary Educators: Holocaust Education in a Global Context, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies,, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June The First World War in the Colonies, Panel: WWI at Home and Abroad, Center for Austrian Studies,, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April Meiner Frau, die fast weiß ist : Kolonial Verbindungen, Rasse, und national Identität in Deutsch Südwestafrika, , Interdisziplinäre Konferenz der Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst (DAAD), Berlin, Germany, December of 5

3 2014 Hottentots, Hereros, and Heimat: Colonial Encounters and German Identity in Southwest Africa, , Twentieth Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar, Nineteenth-Century German History, German Historical Institute (GHI), Washington, D.C., May A Colonial Challenge to National Identity: Hendrik Witbooi, German Colonialism, and the Southwest African Heimat: , Academic Seminar: Global History, Literature, and Culture from a German Base, 37 th Annual German Studies Association (GSA) Meeting, Denver, Colorado, October Hottentots and Heimat: Colonial Encounters and the Formation of German Identity in Southwest Africa, , Panel: Colonial Complications: Empire, War, and Narratives of Deutschtum from Germany s African Colonies, , Fourth Annual German History Society Annual Meeting, London, United Kingdom, September Eine andere Heimat: Boer Migration and German Identity in Southwest Africa, , Acts to Ground: On the Politics of the Humanities, 2013 Winter School, Centre for Humanities Research (CHR), University of the Western Cape (UWC), Cape Town, South Africa, July Between Heimat and Heathens: German Missionaries and the Forging of Germanness in Southern Africa, , 36 th Annual German Studies Association (GSA) Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, October Germany Across Boundaries, Rethinking Europe: New Approaches and Methodologies to the Study of Europe in 21 st Century, Center for German and European Studies,, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October Genesis of Ascendancy: The Rhenish Mission Society and the Civilizing Mission in Southwestern Africa, 35th Annual German Studies Association (GSA) Meeting, Louisville, Kentucky, September Ideology and Implementation: Scientific Racism and the Evolution of the Final Solution, Fifth Annual James A. Rawley Graduate Conference in the Humanities, Lincoln, Nebraska, April Mercy Killers : Nazi Doctors in the Aktion Reinhard Death Camps, University of Wyoming Graduate Symposium, Laramie, Wyoming, April Destruction of Life Unworthy of Life: The Perversion of the Hippocratic Oath Under the Nazis, Colorado Regional Conference, Laramie, Wyoming, March Dorot Fellows Research Presentation, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., August Bergen-Belsen on Trial: From Convalescent to Death Camp, University of Wyoming Graduate Symposium, Laramie, Wyoming, April The Holocaust in Court: The Verdicts of the Belsen Trial, Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, March 2008 COURSES TAUGHT: INSTRUCTOR OF RECORD University of Wyoming (Visiting Assistant Professor) 2016 World War II in Europe, Online, Department of History, Spring 2016 [Forthcoming] 2016 International History of Human Rights, Center for Global Studies, Spring 2016 [Forthcoming] 3 of 5

4 2015 History of the Holocaust, Department of History, Fall 2015 [Forthcoming] 2015 History of the Holocaust, Department of History, Spring Germans Abroad: Migration and Nation in the Long Nineteenth Century, Institute for Global Studies, Fall Studies in Twentieth Century Europe: From the Turn of the Century to the End of World War II, , Department of History, Fall History of the Holocaust, Department of History, Summer Studies in Twentieth Century Europe: From the Turn of the Century to the End of World War II, , (Online), Department of History, Summer History of Europe since 1945, Department of History, Summer History of the Holocaust, Department of History, Fall 2011 Osher Lifelong Learning Institute 2015 From Kaiser to Kanzlerin: Forging German Unity from 1805 to the Present, Fall 2015 [Forthcoming] 2015 The Abstract Nakedness of Man: Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity, 1945 to the Present, Summer The Abstract Nakedness of Man : Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity, 1789 to 1945, Spring 2015 COURSES TAUGHT: TEACHING ASSISTANT 2014 Writing (in) East Asian Cultures: China, Japan, and Korea, Department of Asian Languages and Literatures, Spring Current Issues in Crime Control: Drugs and Society, Department of Sociology, Spring Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity, Department of History, Spring Theoretical Approaches to Global Studies, Institute of Global Studies, Spring Knowledge, Power, and the Politics of Representation in Global Studies, Institute of Global Studies, Fall History of the Holocaust, Department of History, Fall 2009 University of Wyoming 2009 Western Civilizations II, Department of History, Spring Western Civilizations I, Department of History, Fall 2008 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 2014 Graduate Student Recruitment Coordinator, Department of History, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Spring AP European History Examination Reader, Kansas City, Missouri, Summer 2012-Present 2012 Advisor, Leni Riefenstahl: Reforming an Industry and a Nation, Minnesota History Day, Senior Division, Group Documentary, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Spring of 5

5 2012 Graduate Student Committee Representative, Department of History, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Deutscheschrift Intensive Summer Course, Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania June Conference Organizer, Colorado Regional Conference, Phi Alpha Theta, Nu Alpha Chapter, Vice President, Department of History, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, Spring Vice President of Phi Alpha Theta, Nu Alpha Chapter, Department of History, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIPS 2014 Research Assistant for Dr. Katharine Gerbner Translating and Transcribing Eighteenth Century German Script, Department of History,, 2014-Present LANGUAGES German (fluent) Sütterlin German Script (paleography) French (reading) ARCHIVAL SITES Bundesarchiv Lichterfelde (Berlin, Germany) Auswärtiges Amt (Berlin, Germany) Staatsbiblothek zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Berlin, Germany) Vereinte Evangelische Mission (Wuppertal, Germany) Cape Town Archival Repository (Cape Town, South Africa) National Library of South Africa Cape Town Campus (Cape Town, South Africa) PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS German Studies Association, 2011-Present Central European History Society, 2012-Present German Historical Society, German Historical Institute, 2014-Present 5 of 5