FRANK ADLER, G. Theodore Mitau Professor

Carnegie Hall
Rm 203 D

Phone: (651) 696-6415
Email: adler@macalester.edu

>> Poli 140: Foundations of Comparative Politics
>> Poli 160: Foundations of Political Theory

Frank Adler conducted his undergraduate studies at Antioch College and The London School of Economics.  He received his doctorate in Political Science from The University of Chicago.  He has received fellowships, grants and awards from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Council for European Studies, and the Barbieri Foundation.

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, Perspectives in Politics, Ethics, Telos, Contemporary Sociology, Modern & Contemporary France, Holocaust & Genocide Studies, Patterns of Prejudice, Modern Judaism, Les temps modernes, raisons politiques, L’homme et la société, and Il Ponte.

In political theory, Adler has focused on Western Marxism, Critical Theory, and especially the work of Antonio Gramsci (beyond journal articles, he contributed to the four-volume collection Antonio Gramsci: Critical Assessments, Routledge 2002).  An expert in European movements of the Far Right in France and Italy, he has written on contemporary racism, immigration, and fascism.  He is author of Italian Industrialists from Liberalism to Power (Cambridge University Press, 1995), and has contributed to a number of anthologies on the Far Right (Destra/Sinistra, storia e fenomonologia di una dicotomia politica, Antonio Pellicani Editore, 1997; Il Fascismo: Un Dizionario Critico, Giulio Einaudi Editore, 2002; Fascism and Neo-Fascism: Critical Writings on the Radical Right in Europe, Palgrave 2004).  Adler also edited and contributed to a special issue of Telos on contemporary Italian research on Fascism (Winter 2006), as well as a special section on Italian intellectuals and Fascism (Summer 2007).   Currently, he is writing a book on Italian Fascism and the Jews, focusing on Mussolini’s turn towards racism during the late 1930s.

Beyond his duties at Macalester College, Adler is a past Chair of The American Political Science Association’s Committee on Professional Ethics, and serves on advisory committees of The Center for German and European Studies, as well as the Italian Studies Program, at The University of Minnesota.