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.
Selected Publications
Books:
- . Edited by Eva Giloi, Martin Kohlrausch, Heikki Lempa, Heidi Mehrkens, Philipp Nielsen. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022.
- . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021.
- , Edited by Derek Hillard, Russell Spinney, Heikki Lempa. New York: Berghahn Books, 2020.
- . Edited by Paul Peucker and Heikki Lempa. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2010.
- . Lanham: Lexington Books, 2007.
- . Turku: Turun yliopisto, 1993.
Recent Articles and Chapters:
- "Tea, Race, and Ethnicity: Medical Knowledge of the Others in the German Lands, 1700-1830" in . Edited by Stephanie M. Hilger. London: Bloomsbury, 2024, 237-50.
- "Civil Society and the Embodiment of Authority" in . Edited by Eva Giloi, Martin Kohlrauschh, Heikki Lempa, Heidi Mehrkens, Philipp Nielsen. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022, 395-416.
- Journal of Modern European History 20 (2022): 44/58.
- in the Anatomy of the Medical Image. Knowledge Production and Transfiguration from the Renaissance to Today. Edited by Christiane Weller and Axel Fliethmann. Leiden: Brill, 2021, 95-111.