Professor of History, Chair of the Department of General Education
678-839-6040
tschroer@westga.edu
Technology Learning Center - Room 3218
Office Hours
Mon. 9:30-11:00; T/Th 2:00-4:00; W 11:00-12:00
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 (The Historian's Craft:Methdlgy)
- HIST-3500 (US Foreign Policy Since 1898)
- HIST-4250 (The First World War)
- HIST-4418 (20th Century Europe)
- HIST-4420 (The Holocaust)
- HIST-4440 (Modern Germany)
- HIST-4484 (Senior Seminar)
- HIST-5440 (Modern Germany)
- HIST-6684 (Historiography)
- HIST-6686 (History of Genocide)
- HIST-6694 (Graduate Writing)
- XIDS-2002 (The Boxer Rebellion)
Spring 2021 Sections
- HIST-6694 (Graduate Writing) Section: 01
Fall 2020 Sections
- HIST-4250 (The First World War) Section: 01W
Spring 2020 Sections
- HIST-2302 (The Historian's Craft:Methdlgy) Section: 01 Download Syllabus [PDF]
Fall 2019 Sections
- HIST-4440 (Modern Germany) Section: 01W Download Syllabus [PDF]
- HIST-5440 (Modern Germany) Section: 01 Download Syllabus [PDF]
Fall 2018 Sections
- XIDS-2002 (The Boxer Rebellion) Section: 101
- HIST-6686 (History of Genocide) Section: 01 Download Syllabus [PDF]
Spring 2018 Sections
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 08 Download Syllabus [PDF]
- HIST-3500 (US Foreign Policy Since 1898) Section: 01 Download Syllabus [PDF]
Fall 2017 Sections
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 06 Download Syllabus [PDF]
- HIST-4484 (Senior Seminar) Section: 01W Download Syllabus [PDF]
Summer 2017 Sections
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E01
Fall 2016 Sections
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 05 Download Syllabus [PDF]
- HIST-4440 (Modern Germany) Section: 01W Download Syllabus [PDF]
- HIST-5440 (Modern Germany) Section: 01 Download Syllabus [PDF]
Summer 2016 Sections
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 91
- HIST-4420 (The Holocaust) Section: 01 Download Syllabus [PDF]
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 Download Syllabus [PDF]
Fall 2015 Sections
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 25H Download Syllabus [PDF]
- HIST-6684 (Historiography) Section: 01 Download Syllabus [PDF]
Summer 2015 Sections
- HIST-4250 (The First World War) Section: 01 Download Syllabus [PDF]
Spring 2015 Sections
- HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 06
- HIST-4484 (Senior Seminar) Section: 01W Download Syllabus [PDF]
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 AmericanOccupied 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.
“‘Racial’ Mixing of Prisoners of War in the First World War,” in Other Combatants, Other Fronts: Competing Histories of the First World War, ed. James E. Kitchen, Alisa Miller, and Laura Rowe, 177-98 (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 20