Mathias Foit completed his doctorate at the Free University of Berlin and is currently
and is currently working at the University of Padua on the research project “A Continent
Disarmed? Gun Culture, Gun Control and the Making of Western Europe (ca.
1870-1970) EU-GUNS”
(https://www.dissgea.unipd.it/continent-disarmed-gun-culture-gun-control-and-making-western-europe-ca-1870-1970-eu-guns).
His book “Queer Urbanisms in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany: Of Towns
and Villages“ (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-46576-5)
shows a previously undiscovered world of queer social, political and cultural life
cultural life in the easternmost provinces of the former German Empire.
Reich at the time. He also holds a degree in English Studies from the
University of Wrocław (Poland) and works on historical and cultural
projects that deal with local and regional queer histories.
deal with local and regional queer histories.

Website: https://mathiasfoit.com/