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Heikki Lempa

Comenius Hall
Prof. Lempa

Dr. Heikki Lempa

Professor of History | Priscilla Payne Hurd Chair in the Arts and Humanities

Office: Comenius Hall 307
Phone: 610-861-1315
Email: lempah@moravian.edu

Education

  • Filosofian tohtori, University of Turku, Finland
  • Ph.D., University of Chicago

Teaching

Besides surveys in Modern European History, I teach courses on the History of the Body, the Holocaust, and the History of Emotions. 

Student Research Projects

  • Histories of the Bodies in East Africa, 1500-1900 (Research, 2022-2024)
  • In the Name of the Republic: Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, Race, and Slavery in 18th-Century Haiti (SOAR, 2023)
  • Was the French Revolution a Religious Revolution? Maximilien Robespierre and the Religion of the Supreme Being, (SOAR, 2021)
  • Chinese and Indian Medicine and the West, 1500-1900, (Research 2020-2021)
  • Ballet or Court Dance? Exploring the Foundations of the Classical Ballet in the Court of Louis XIV, 1650-1700, (SOAR, 2020) 
  • Moravians and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean, (Research 2019-2020)
  • Max Schmeling: The Making of a Masculine Icon (1924-1938), (Honors, 2019-2020) 
  • Moravian Life Histories, (SOAR, 2017)
  • Global Medicine and Sports and Germany, 1500-1900, (Research 2016-2018)
  • Spaces of Honor, Making of German Civil Society, 1700-1914, (Research 2015-2017)
  • Practices of Masculinity in Germany, 118-1934, (Honors, 2015-2016)

Current Research

My current book-length project, tentatively titled, The Bodies of the Others. A History of German Sports, Medicine, and Dance in a Global Context, 1700-1914 is an attempt to understand the global entanglements of the German body and its practices. 
 

                 Staging Authority. Presentation and Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe       Spaces of Honor, Making Civil Society in Germany, 1700-1914       Feelings Materialized. Emotions, Bodies, and Things in Modern Germany         Self, Community, World: Moravian Education in a Transatlantic World         Beyond the Gymnasium: Educating the Middle-Class Bodies in Classical Germany         Bildung der Triebe: Der deutsche Philanthropismus (1768-1788)           

Selected Publications

Books:

Recent Articles and Chapters: