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) 
• ÐÔÊÀ½ç´«Ã½s and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean, (Research 2019-2020)
• Max Schmeling: The Making of a Masculine Icon (1924-1938), (Honors, 2019-2020) 
• ÐÔÊÀ½ç´«Ã½ 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.