Timothy Schroer, Ph.D.
Chair of the Department of General Education & Professor of History
678-839-6040
tschroer@westga.e du
Technology Learning Center - Room 3218
Office Hours
Mon. 8:30-10:30, Thu. 2:00-4:00, or by appointment
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
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II)
- HIST-2302 (Methodology)
- HIST-3500 (Nazi Germany)
- HIST-4250 (The First World War)
- HIST-4420 (The Holocaust)
- HIST-4440 (Modern Germany)
- HIST-4484 (Senior Seminar)
- HIST-4485 (Teaching 20th Cen. Wld. Hist.)
- HIST-5420 (The Holocaust)
- HIST-6685 (Teaching 20th-cen World Hist)
- HIST-6694 (Graduate Writing)
Spring 2025 Sections
- HIST-4420 (The Holocaust) Section: 01W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2024 Sections
- HIST-4250 (The First World War) Section: 01W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2024 Sections
- HIST-2302 (The Historian's Craft:Methdlgy) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2023 Sections
- HIST-4485 (Teaching 20th Cen. Wld. Hist.) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-6685 (Teaching 20th-cen World Hist) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Summer 2023 Sections
- HIST-4484 (Senior Seminar) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2023 Sections
- HIST-4484 (Senior Seminar) Section: 01W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2022 Sections
- HIST-2302 (Methodology) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-3500 (Nazi Germany) Section: 01W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2022 Sections
- HIST-4440 (Modern Germany) Section: 01W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2021 Sections
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 18 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-4420 (The Holocaust) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- HIST-5420 (The Holocaust) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2021 Sections
- HIST-6694 (Graduate Writing) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2020 Sections
- HIST-4250 (The First World War) Section: 01W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
“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.