Faculty
Sandra Aguilar | Associate Professor
Office location: Comenius Hall 302
Office phone: 610-625-7957
Email: aguilars@moravian.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of Manchester
Research interests and expertise
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Latin America, particularly Mexico. I am currently working on a book manuscript entitled “Cooking Modernity: Food, Gender, and Class in Mid-Twentieth Century Mexico.” This work situates women, the kitchen, and food at the forefront of the modernization process by examining women’s agency at home and the failure of nutrition programs in Mexico.
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Richard Anderson | Assistant Professor of Practice in Public History
Office location: Comenius Hall 301
Office phone: 610-625-7722
Email: andersonr03@moravian.edu
Education
Ph.D., Princeton University
Research interests and expertise
My scholarly research explores U.S. politics, labor, and cities after World War II. I am currently completing my first book, Machine Politics: How Richard J. Daley and Chicago's Democratic Party Remade American Liberalism.
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Sandy Bardsley | Professor
Office location: Comenius Hall 303
Office phone: 610-861-1398
Email: bardsleys@moravian.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research interests and expertise
I am co-author with Judith M. Bennett of the 12th edition of Medieval Europe: A Short History (July 2020, Oxford University Press). I am currently interested in the ways in which archaeological remains provide us with data about women's and men's health in late medieval England. I have published on sex ratios, attitudes towards women's speech, women's wages, and women's status in the middle ages.
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Jane Berger | Associate Professor and Department Chair
Office location: Comenius Hall 308
Office phone: 610-861-1402
Email: bergerj@moravian.edu
Education
Ph.D.,The Ohio State University
Research interests and expertise
Modern U.S. history. Topics of my courses include politics and protest, race and citizenship, women’s history, and recent U.S. history. I am currently working on a book on the historical causes of late twentieth century urban poverty in the United States.
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Heikki Lempa | Professor of History, Priscilla Payne Hurd Chair in the Arts and Humanities
Office location: Comenius Hall 307
Office phone: 610-861-1315
Email: lempah@moravian.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research interests and expertise
I have published on German educational reform, the history of the body, and the history of emotions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. My most recent book, Spaces of Honor. Making Civil Society in Germany, 1700-1914 (University of Michigan Press, 2021) explores the intersections of civil society and practices of honor in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century Germany. I am currently working on a book-length project that attempts to understand how German sports, medicine, and dance were influenced by global entanglements, 1700-1914.
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Jamie Paxton | Associate Professor
Office location: Comenius Hall 306
Office phone: 610-625-7897
Email: paxtonj@moravian.edu
Education
Ph.D., Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
Research interests and expertise
I offer courses in early American and Antebellum US history as well as the history of First People. I am currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled, "Kinship, Communities, and Covenant Chains: The Mohawks and Their Neighbors in New York and Upper Canada, 1712-1830." My work examines how Mohawks, one of the Six Nations, incorporated Europeans into kinship networks and how the resultant communities persisted for more than a century in New York and, after the Revolution, Upper Canada (Ontario).