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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Assistant">On December 23, 2022, Kenneth Barkin, Professor Emeritus in History, passed away peacefully, with his wife, Elizabeth Lord, Professor Emerita in Botany and Plant Sciences, by his side.
Betty has asked that in lieu of flowers that colleagues might send personnel remembrances of Ken to her (<a href="mailto:elizabethmarylord@gmail.com">elizabethmarylord@gmail.com</a>) to be shared with family.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Assistant">Following is a tribute from Piotr Gorecki in the History Department: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Assistant">We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of our colleague Kenneth Barkin, Professor Emeritus in the History Department, on December 23, 2022, after a long illness. Ken has served
on our faculty from 1968 until his retirement in 2005, and thereafter remained active in scholarship, and in civic and cultural engagement. Over his long decades in the department, he has exemplified an engaged, distinguished professionalism, spanning research,
teaching, and service. His specialty was modern German history between its unification under Bismarck and the Weimar Republic, above all the several decades on either side of 1900. He pursued a highly innovative brand of cultural history, seamlessly linking
society, economy, and ideas. In the course of this work, he turned that inquiry toward individual biography, intercultural contact, the United States, and race: the place of Blacks (above all Black Americans) in the culture and learning of fin-de-siècle Germany,
as exemplified through the experience, writings, and thought of W.E.B. DuBois. In 1991, he assumed the editorship of Central European History, and promptly reestablished that journal as the top venue of scholarship in English on the history of German-speaking
countries, until passing on this position in 2004. He served as department chair at the turn of the 1980s and the 1990s, a time of rapid acceleration in the hiring of new colleagues across UCR, and he was especially welcoming and supportive toward new junior
colleagues. Assiduously involved in all areas of teaching, he supervised several doctoral students. His interest in culture broadly conceived, blended seamlessly with an esthetic and material sensibility—as reflected in his teaching and dissertation supervision
relating to modern European material culture, and in his curating, and personally gathering, magnificent collections of pewter, produced and circulated in the region and time comprising his terrain of research. He layered these activities with occasional commentary
in non-academic venues on important issues of today, with emphasis on social and economic inequality. We remember Ken with great admiration as a colleague of broad and deep learning and range of interests and talents, and as a person marked by an abiding sense
of humanity and social justice, great strength, principled conviction, and integrity.</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Assistant"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Assistant">Please join me in our remembrance and celebration of Ken’s legacy. We are honored to count him among the most renowned of our community.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Assistant">In your service,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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