How My Book Began

HMBB #6: Leopold Leeb | Missionaries to China

Nate speaks with Leopold Leeb, author of the forthcoming  Missionaries to China: A Historical Dictionary [https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/missionaries-to-china-9781611463163/] (Lehigh University Press, 2025). Professor Leeb discusses how he approached writing a book that covers nearly 1400 individuals and why this dictionary is important today. We also talk about some of the challenges that historians in China face when considering narratives of Christian missions in China and what he hopes to see in future scholarship on missionary history in China. Missionaries to China is a big book (nearly 500 double columned pages!) and so it is fitting that our interview ran a little long as well ; )

HMBB #5: Joseph W. Ho | Photography as History

In this episode, Nate speaks with Joseph W. Ho [https://josephweiho.com] about his two books, War and Occupation in China [https://lupress.lehigh.edu/publication/war-and-occupation-china], published by Lehigh University Press, and Developing Mission [https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501761850/developing-mission/#bookTabs=1], published by Cornell University Press.

HMBB #4: Tom Scott and Achim Kopp | Moravian Mission to Georgia

In this episode Nate speaks with Tom Scott and Achim Kopp, editors of The Journals of the Moravian Mission to Georgia, 1734–1737: From Herrnhut to Savannah, published by Lehigh University Press in 2023. Tom and Achim discuss their work with challenging archival material and their experience of working together on a project that was decades in the making. For more information on their book, visit the LUP website. [https://lupress.lehigh.edu/publication/journals-moravian-mission-georgia-1734-1737]

HMBB #3: Tiffany Schubert | Jane Austen's Romantic Medievalism

In episode 3 of HMBB LUP managing editor Nate Carpenter talks with Tiffany Schubert about reading, and writing about, Jane Austen and the origins of Schubert’s 2023 book Jane Austen’s Romantic Medievalism published by Lehigh University Press. To learn more about Dr. Schubert’s: https://wyomingcatholic.edu/person/tiffany-schubert-ph-d/ [https://wyomingcatholic.edu/person/tiffany-schubert-ph-d/] To purchase Jane Austen’s Romantic Medievalism: https://lupress.lehigh.edu/publication/jane-austens-romantic-medievalism [https://lupress.lehigh.edu/publication/jane-austens-romantic-medievalism]

HMBB #2: Gavin Hurley | Catholic Horror and Rhetorical Dialectics

In episode 2 of HMBB, Nate talks with Gavin Hurley, author of Catholic Horror and Rhetorical Dialectics, published by Lehigh University Press in 2024. For more information about the book (and to see that stunning cover!) visit: https://lupress.lehigh.edu/publication/catholic-horror-and-rhetorical-dialectics