Kenneth D. Barkin
Professor of History
Ph.D., Brown University, 1965
(951) 827-1994 kenneth.barkin@ucr.edu
Fields of Interest: modern European history, especially
Wilhelmian Germany
Kenneth Barkin was born
and raised in Brooklyn before gentrification set in. Its
proper characterization in the forties and fifties would
have been urban vernacular. He majored in history at Brooklyn
College and went on to Brown University where he wrote
his dissertation on German economic history under the
tutelage of Klaus Epstein. It was later published by the
University of Chicago Press under the title: The
Controversy over German Industrialization, 1890-1902.
He has been at Riverside since 1968. His published articles
have appeared in The Journal of Modern History, Central
European History, German Studies Review, and Geschichte
und Gesellschaft. He has twice been awarded prizes by
the Conference Group for Central European History (1970,
1984) for the best article in German history over a two
year period. His main area of teaching and research is
modern German history although he has made a foray into
material culture by teaching a course on "Everyday
Things, 1750-1920," and curating five exhibitions
including one at the Long Beach Museum of Art. He has
been editing Central European History since 1991.
