Robert M. Beachy

Robert M. Beachy ( born January 5, 1965 in Aibonito, Puerto Rico) is an American historian.

After leaving school, studied Beachy history at the University of Chicago, where he in 1998 his Ph.D. reached. He got a job after graduation as a high school teacher at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland.

Beachy wrote several books as an author. His research interests include topics on the history of homosexuality, particularly in the history of Germany.

Works (selection)

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

Prizes and Awards (selection)

  • Guggenheim Fellowship, 2009
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