Robert Beachy (born in Aibonito, Puerto Rico) is associate professor of history at the Underwood International College at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea.  He was raised in Mennonite communities in Puerto Rico and Indiana. He formerly taught at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland.

Career
Beachy specializes in the intellectual and cultural history of Germany and Europe, and 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. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1998; his M.A. in History from the University of Chicago in 1989; and, his B.A. in History from Earlham College, 1988.

In 2009, Beachy was named a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for his research on homosexuality in Nazi Germany.  Beachy's work also has received support from the Huntington Library, the National Humanities Center, the Max Planck Institute for History, the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the American Philosophical Society.

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, 2015.
 Spirit of Stonewall, for "Gay Berlin," Berlin Gay Pride Parade Association.
 Best Article in European History, Higby Prize of the American Historical Association.
 Non-fiction honor book, for "Gay Berlin," Stonewall Book Awards of the American Library Association.
 John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
 National Humanities Center, residential fellowship.
 Center for the Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, residential fellowship.
 American Philosophical Society
 The Huntington Library
 The German Academic Exchange Service
 The Max Planck Institute for the Study of History
 The Goethe Institute

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
Academic staff of Yonsei University
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
American male non-fiction writers
Year of birth missing (living people)