David A. Messenger
Assistant Professor
Director of Graduate Programs, International Studies. 19th and 20th Century Europe, the Holocaust

Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2000 M.A., University of Toronto, 1994 B.A., McGill University, 1993
dmesseng@uwyo.edu • 766-6276 • History Room 258

Office Hours: Mon. 10:00am-12:00pm; Wed. 12:30-2:00pm (Cheney Center Rm 205 Thursday 12:00-1:00pm)

David A. Messenger came to the University of Wyoming in 2006. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto and previously taught at Carroll College in Helena, Montana. His research focuses on the transition from war to peace on Europe following the Second World War. He is particularly interested in how the international system, domestic politics and societies at large dealt with issues of justice and democratization following the experience of Nazi atrocities and the collaboration of many non-Germans in these crimes over the course of the war. He has focused his work on examining the Spanish dictatorship of General Francisco Franco as one place, on the periphery of the war, where themes of collaboration, justice and continuity raise some interesting questions. Currently he is preparing a study of approximately 150 Nazis repatriated from Spain and Portugal to Germany in 1946 following American and British investigations into their hiding of stolen financial assets. He has held fellowships from the Government of Spain and the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC and the Mershon Center for International Strategic Studies at the Ohio State University.
 

Research Interests:
The Second World War and early post-war with an emphasis on Allied policy and modern Spain

Teaching:
Western Civilization II, Holocaust, Upper division classes on 19th and 20th Century Europe, Germany, France and World War II, Memory in 20th Century Europe. Also offers short-term study abroad opportunities for students in Germany, Poland and Hungary.

Publications:

Articles

2006

David A. Messenger, ‘Our Spanish Brothers’ or ‘As at Plombières’: France and the Spanish Opposition to Franco, 1945-1948’ French History 20:1 (2006) pp. 52-74.

2005

David A. Messenger, ‘Rival Faces of France: Refugees, Would-be Allies and Economic Warfare in Spain, 1942-1944’ International History Review 27:1 (2005), pp. 25-46.

Book Chapters

2007

David A. Messenger, ‘Against the Grain: Special Operations Executive in Spain, 1941-1945’ in The Politics and Strategy of Clandestine War: Special Operations Executive, 1940-1946 ed. Neville Wylie. (London: Routledge, 2007), pp. 177-192.

2006

David A. Messenger, ‘Dividing Europe: European Integration and the Impact of the Cold War’ in Origins and Evolution of the European Union ed. Desmond Dinan. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 31-54.

Books

2008

David A. Messenger, L’Espagne Républicaine: French Policy and Spanish Republicanism in Liberated France (Brighton, UK and Portland, OR: Sussex Academic Press, 2008)

Service:

Phi Alpha Theta faculty advisor
International Studies adjunct faculty

 

 

 

 
 
 
 

Affiliations, Associations, Consultation:

American Historical Association
Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies

German Studies Association
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

Press releases:

• 9/15/2006 - UW Trustees Approve Personnel Items