Robert Beachy (born in Aibonito,

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) is associate professor of

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at the

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in Seoul, South Korea. Was raised in Mennonite communities in Puerto Rico and Indiana. He formerly taught at

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Career

Beachy specializes in the intellectual and cultural history of

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and

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, and is known for his work on the history of sexuality in the

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, under the

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, and in

after the

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. He received his Ph.D. from the

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in 1998; his M.A. in History from the University of Chicago in 1989; and, his B.A. in History from

Earlham College Earlham College is a private liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana. The college was established in 1847 by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and has a strong focus on Quaker values such as integrity, a commitment to peace and social ...

, 1988. In 2009, Beachy was named a fellow of the

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for his research on homosexuality in Nazi Germany. Beachy's work also has received support from the

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, the

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, the

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, the

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, the

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(DAAD) and the

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. In 2015, his work "Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity" was named a Stonewall Honor Book in Non-Fiction by the American Library Association.

Works

* ''Long Knives: Homosexuality in Nazi Germany'' (in preparation). * ''Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity'' (Alfred A. Knopf 2014). * "The German Invention of Homosexuality," ''The Journal of Modern History'', Vol. 82, No. 4 (Dec. 2010), pp. 801–38. * ''German Civil Wars: Nation Building and Historical Memory, 1756-1914'', co-authored with James Retallack (forthcoming, Oxford). * ''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) * ''The Soul of Commerce: Credit, Property and Politics in Leipzig, 1750-1840'' (Brill 2005) * ''Women Business & Finance in Nineteenth Century Europe: Rethinking Separate Spheres'', ed. with Beatrice Craig & Alastair Owens (Berg 2005)

Awards, grants, and fellowships

* Best non-fiction work in LGBTQ literature, for "Gay Berlin,"

Randy Shilts Award The Randy Shilts Award is an annual literary award, presented by Publishing Triangle to honour works of non-fiction of relevance to the gay community. First presented in 1997, the award was named in memory of American journalist Randy Shilts. Winn ...

, 2015. * Spirit of Stonewall, for "Gay Berlin," Berlin Gay Pride Parade Association. * Best Article in European History, Higby Prize of the

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. * Non-fiction honor book, for "Gay Berlin," Stonewall Book Awards of the

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. * John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship * National Humanities Center, residential fellowship. * Center for the Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, residential fellowship. *

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* The German Academic Exchange Service * The Max Planck Institute for the Study of History *

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References

External links

Beachy bio
at Goucher College's website
Goucher press release

List of Guggenheim Fellows
American expatriates in South Korea Earlham College alumni Goucher College faculty and staff Historians of Europe Historians of LGBT topics Living people People from Aibonito, Puerto Rico United States Department of Agriculture officials University of Chicago alumni Yonsei University faculty 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers American male non-fiction writers Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-historian-stub