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Robert Beachy’s forthcoming work, Gay Berlin (Alfred A. Knopf, 2011), situates the origins of homosexual identity in debates about nationalism, politics, and masculinity in Germany from the 1860s through the 1920s. His current project, Long Knives, focuses on homosexuality under the Nazi regime. It suggests there was a complex evolution of policies toward homosexual political and social organizations inside and outside the Nazi party, ranging from open tolerance to persecution.

Beachy’s publications include The Soul of Commerce: Credit, Property and Politics in Leipzig, 1750-1840 (Brill, 2005); Who Ruled the Cities? Elite and Urban Power Structures, 1750-1940, co-edited with Ralf Roth (Ashgate Press, 2007); and Women in Business and Finance in Nineteenth Century Europe: Rethinking Separate Spheres, co-edited with Alastair Owens and Beatrice Craig (Berg Press 2006). He has a contracted book with Oxford University Press, co-authored with James Retallack, entitled German Civil Wars: Nation Building and Historical Memory, 1756-1914 (forthcoming 2013-14).

Beachy was a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow in 2009-10. He has received other awards from the National Humanities Center, the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen, and the American Philosophical Society.