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. 

My most recent publication is the essay “A Failed Showcase: The Great Berlin-Vienna Horse Ride of 1892,” in Berlin Sports: Mega-Events, Media, and Recreation in the Global Metropolis, a collection edited by Heather Dichter and Molly Wilkinson Johnson with the University of Arkansas Press. It's available here!

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