Timothy Schroer, Ph.D.

Fields of Study: Modern Germany, Modern Europe, Methodology

Dr. Schroer's book Recasting Race after World War II: Germans and African Americans in American-Occupied Germany was published by University Press of Colorado in July 2007. His current research focuses on efforts by Germany and other Western powers to punish and reform China in the wake of the Boxer Uprising.

  • B.A., University of Dallas, 1988
  • J.D., Harvard Law School, 1991
  • M.A., University of Virginia, 1998
  • Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2002

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Spring 2020 Sections

  • HIST-2302 (The Historian's Craft:Methdlgy) Section: 01

Fall 2019 Sections

  • HIST-4440 (Modern Germany) Section: 01W
  • HIST-5440 (Modern Germany) Section: 01

Fall 2018 Sections

  • XIDS-2002 (The Boxer Rebellion) Section: 101
  • HIST-6686 (History of Genocide) Section: 01

Spring 2018 Sections

  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 08
  • HIST-3500 (US Foreign Policy Since 1898) Section: 01

Fall 2017 Sections

  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 06
  • HIST-4484 (Senior Seminar) Section: 01W

Summer 2017 Sections

  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E01

Fall 2016 Sections

  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 05
  • HIST-4440 (Modern Germany) Section: 01W
  • HIST-5440 (Modern Germany) Section: 01

Summer 2016 Sections

  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 91
  • HIST-4420 (The Holocaust) Section: 01

Spring 2016 Sections

  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: L2Y
  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: LXY
  • HIST-4418 (20th Century Europe) Section: 01W

Fall 2015 Sections

  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 25H
  • HIST-6684 (Historiography) Section: 01

Summer 2015 Sections

  • HIST-4250 (The First World War) Section: 01

Spring 2015 Sections

  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 06
  • HIST-4484 (Senior Seminar) Section: 01W

“A ‘War for Peace’? German-Speaking Pacifists’ Views on the Boxer Conflict,” in Sino-German Encounters and Entanglements: Transnational Politics and Culture, 1890-1950, ed. Joanne Miyang Cho, 55-75 (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).

Timothy L. Schroer, “Multinormativity in Western Arguments Regarding Punishment of the Boxers and their Patrons, 1900-1901,” Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Research Paper Series, No. 2018-07 (July 2018).

Timothy L. Schroer, “The German Military, Violence, and Culture during the Boxer Conflict,” in Empire, Ideology, Mass Violence: The Long Twentieth Century in Comparative Perspective, ed. Tobias Hof (Munich: Herbert Utz Verlag, 2016), 21-44.

Recasting Race after World War II: Germans and African Americans in American-Occupied Germany (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2007).

“Civilization, Barbarism, and the Ethos of Self-Control among the Perpetrators,” German Studies Review 35, no. 1 (2012): 33-54.

“The Emergence and Early Demise of Codified Racial Segregation of Prisoners of War under the Geneva Conventions of 1929 and 1949,” Journal of the History of International Law 15 (2013): 53-76.