Henry R. Bleattler

Dr. Henry “Harry” Bleattler is currently an Associate Professor of History and the Humanities. His Ph.D. is in the Humanities, focusing on the intellectual and cultural history of Renaissance and Reformation Europe. Additional research interests include ancient history with a particular focus on the world of myth, the origins of civilization, ancient Egypt, and rise of Christianity in Late Antiquity.

He teaches courses in Western Civilization, the humanities, cultural history, and museum studies.  In 2014, he helped create and launch Europa, King’s faculty-led summer study program in Europe which has taken students to Paris, Rome, and Florence, Berlin, and Vienna over successive summers. Before arriving at King’s, Dr. Bleattler was an education curator at the Mary Brogan Museum of Art & Science in Tallahassee, Florida. His experience in the museum world is reflected in his classes where he regularly takes students to the Metropolitan Museum of Art as well as other important cultural arts institutions in New York City. He currently oversees the Museum Studies minor and concentration and is a weekend tour guide at the Met.

This engagement with the city is fundamental to his teaching pedagogy: “When you live and teach in New York City it’s not enough to look at photos in a textbook. We get to go to museums and actually see the objects that we’re reading about. Where else can you study Socrates in the classroom and then go see Jacques-Louis David’s neoclassical masterpiece, The Death of Socrates, or study ancient Egypt and then walk through the Temple of Dendur at the Met?”

Time at King's: 2004 to Present