Welcome!

I am Barnet Hartston, Professor of History at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida. 

I specialize in the cultural history of modern Germany, especially focusing on anti-Semitism, gender history, and more recently the history of sport.  At Eckerd I teach a variety of courses related to these interests, as well as courses on European Environmental History and Animals in Modern Europe. I have also served in faculty leadership and as Assocate Dean of Faculty for General Education. 

I am author of two books: The Trial of Gustav Graef: Art, Sex and Scandal in Late-Nineteenth Century Germany (NIU Press, 2017) and Sensationalizing the Jewish Question: Antisemitic Trials and the Press in the Early German Empire (Brill, 2005), the latter of which was re-released in paperback in 2016. 

I am currently working on a third book, entitled The Great Berlin-Vienna Horse Race of 1892 and Other Masculine Misadventures. My most recent publication is the article “Homing Pigeon Sport, Militarism, and Bürgerlich Masculinity in Imperial Germany and Austria-Hungary” in the International Journal of Sports History. It's available here. 

More information on my activities (and these publications) can be found by clicking the  tabs above.