Robert M. Beachy

Robert Beachy is associate professor of history at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. He specializes in the history of Germany and Europe. Beachy is known for his work on the history of sexuality in the Weimar Republic, under the Nazis, and in Germany after the Second World War.

Beachy received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1998. Most recently, Beachy was a fellow at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. His work has been well received in Germany, including in publications such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Beachy is the brother of Stanford biologist, Philip Beachy and a cousin of author, Stephen Beachy.

Works

* "Long Knives: Homosexuality in Nazi Germany" (in preparation).
* "Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity" (forthcoming, Alfred A. Knopf 2011).
* "German Civil Wars: Nation Building and Historical Memory, 1756-1914", co-authored with James Retallack (forthcoming, Oxford 2010).
* "The Soul of Commerce: Credit, Property and Politics in Leipzig, 1750-1840" (Brill 2005)
* "Pious Pursuits: German Moravians in the Atlantic World", ed. with Michele Gillespie (Berghahn 2007)
* "Who Ran the Cities? Elite and Urban Power Structures, 1700-2000", ed. with Ralf Roth (Ashgate 2007)
* "Women Business & Finance in Nineteenth Century Europe: Rethinking Separate Spheres", ed. with Beatrice Craig & Alastair Owens (Berg 2005)

External links

* [http://www.goucher.edu/x3423.xml Beachy bio] at Goucher College's site