Frank Adler
conducted undergraduate studies at Antioch College and The London
School of Economics. He received his doctorate in Political Science
at The University of Chicago.
A specialist in Comparative Politics
and Political Theory, he has published extensively in journals
on both sides of the Atlantic, including The American Political
Science Review, Ethics, Telos, Contemporary Sociology, Modern & Contemporary France, Holocaust & Genocide Studies, Patterns
of Prejudice, Les temps modernes, L'homme et la société,
and Il Ponte.
An expert in European movements of the Far Right,
he is author of Italian Industrialists from Liberalism to Fascism (Cambridge University Press, 1995), and is completing books on
the Front National in France, as well as Mussolini's turn toward
racism during the late 1930s.
In addition to his duties at Macalester
College, Frank Adler is the Chairman of The American Political
Science Association's Committee on Professional Ethics, and serves
on the advisory committees of The Center for German and European
Studies, and the Italian Studies program, at The University of
Minnesota.
He has received research fellowships from the Woodrow
Wilson Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.