Barnet Hartston
Professor of History at Eckerd College
Education
Ph.D., European History, University of California, San Diego – May 1999
M.A., European History, University of California, San Diego - June 1995
B.A., History, University of California, Los Angeles - June 1991
B.A., Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles - June 1991
Professional Experience
Associate Dean of General Education, 2016 – 2019, Eckerd College
Professor of History, 2017 – present, Eckerd College
Associate Professor of History, 2006-2017, Eckerd College
Assistant Professor of History, 2000-2006, Eckerd College
Adjunct Professor of History, 1999-2000, University of California, San Diego
Recent Awards
Robert A. Staub Distinguished Teacher Award, Eckerd College 2010.
Chapin Faculty Research Fellowship, 2013-2014, 2019-2020
Scholarship
Books:
- The Trial of Gustav Graef: Art, Sex, and Scandal in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany. (De Kalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2017).
- Sensationalizing the Jewish Question: Anti-Semitic Trials and the Press in Early Imperial Germany. Studies in Central European Histories, Vol. XXXIX (Leiden: Brill, 2005). In paperback: April 2016.
Peer reviewed articles and book chapters:
- “A Failed Showcase: The Great Berlin-Vienna Horse Ride of 1892,” in Berlin Sports: Mega-Events, Media, and Recreation in the Global Metropolis. Heather Dichter and Molly Wilkinson Johnson eds. Sport Culture, and Society. (Fayetteville: Univ. of Arkansas Press, 2024)
- “Closing the Courtroom: Press Restrictions and Criminal Trials in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany,” Law and History Review Vol. 35 Nr. 1 (February 2017): 201-235.
- “Reluctant Justice: Government Legal Intervention on Behalf of Jews in Imperial Germany,” German Studies Review Vol. 27 Nr. 1 (February 2004): 83-102.
Book Reviews:
- Review of Carrington, Tyler. Love at Last Sight: Dating, Intimacy, and Risk in Turn-of-the-Century Berlin. American Historical Review Vol.125, Issue 5, (December 2020): 1999–2000. DOI: 10.1093/ahr/rhaa073.
- Review of Fischer, Lars. The Socialist Response to Antisemitism in Imperial Germany. H-German, H-Net Reviews. November, 2007. URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=13903
- Review of Laqueur, Walter. The Changing Face of Antisemitism: From Ancient Times to the Present Day. Cithara Vol. 46 Nr. 2 (May 2007): 40-41.
- Review of Hett, Benjamin Carter. Death in the Tiergarten: Murder and Criminal Justice in the Kaiser’s Berlin in German Studies Review Vol. 28 Nr. 3 (October 2005): 61-62.
Selected Presentations:
- “Debates about Compensation for Wrongly Imprisoned Defendants in the Kaiserreich.” German Studies Association Conference, Atlanta, October, 2017.
- “The Curious Case of the Lex Graef: Press Restrictions and Criminal Trials in the Early Kaiserreich.” German Studies Association Conference, Washington D.C., October 2, 2015.
- “Before Lex Heinze: Legal Debates about Art and Obscenity In the Early Kaiserreich.” German Studies Association Conference, Denver, October 4, 2013.
- Invited Participant: “A New Cultural History of Law?: Historical Perspectives on Weimar Legal Culture” An interdisciplinary Workshop at the Max Kade Center for German and European Studies, Vanderbilt University, February 16-17, 2012.
- “Law, Society, and the Economy: Roundtable on Legal Culture(s) and the Trial in 19th and 20th Century Germany.” Invited Participant in a Roundtable Discussion at the German Studies Association Conference, Louisville, September 24, 2011.
- Invited Participant: “Violence and the Law in German Cultures of Modernity,” DAAD Faculty Summer Seminar, Cornell Univ., June 14-July 23, 2010.
- “Between Ancient Prejudice and Modern Propaganda: Reconsidering Antisemitism in Imperial Germany.” Opening Public Talk of the Holocaust Memorial Week at Oregon State University, April 12, 2010.
- “Slandering the Slanderers: Hirsch Hildesheimer and Jewish Self-Defense in the Early Kaiserreich.” German Studies Association Conference, Milwaukee, October 1, 2005
- “Helmut Smith’s The Butcher’s Tale” – Member of Discussion Panel for the American Society of Church History at the American Historical Association Conference, Washington D.C., January 8, 2004.