Biography

Robert Beachy
Department: History & Historic Preservation
Title: Associate Professor
Degree: B.A., Earlham College, M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago
Email: robert.beachy@goucher.edu
Website: http://www.robertbeachy.net/

Professor Beachy teaches European intellectual and cultural history.   His recent research focuses on the origins and development of sexual identity in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany and homosexuality in Nazi Germany.  His monographs include Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity (forthcoming, Knopf 2011, Vintage 2012), German Civil Wars: Nation Building and Historical Memory, 1756-1914, co-authored with James Retallack (forthcoming, Oxford), and The Soul of Commerce: Credit, Property and Politics in Leipzig, 1750-1840 (Brill 2005).  His edited collections include Pious Pursuits: German Moravians in the Atlantic World, co-edited with Michele Gillespie (Berghahn 2007); Who Ruled the Cities? Elite and Urban Power Structures, 1750-1940, co-edited with Ralf Roth (Ashgate 2007); and Women in Business and Finance in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Rethinking Separate Spheres, co-edited with Alastair Owens and Beatrice Craig (Berg 2006). He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters.