Person
john.hennesseykultur.luse |
2021-06-29
Researcher
- Division of History of Ideas and Sciences
- Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Contact information
E-mail john.hennesseykultur.luse
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
I am a researcher in the History of Ideas and Sciences, Lund University. A historian by training, my research interests include colonial history since 1850, modern Japanese history, transnational and transimperial history, propaganda and popular imperialism. My current research project, funded by the Swedish Research Council, investigates the place of the Ainu people (indigenous to Hokkaido and the surrounding region) in Western racial taxonomies c. 1850-1940 and what this reveals about Western perceptions of "whiteness" at the time.
Research
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Books (1)
Articles (13)
- Hennessey, J. (accepted/in press). George Montandon, the Ainu and the Theory of Hologenesis. Science in Context. Cambridge University Press.
- Hennessey, J. (accepted/in press). The Recurring ‘Discovery’ of Hokkaido and the Ainu : Three Decades of Nineteenth-Century British Travelogues. Nineteenth-Century Contexts. Taylor & Francis.
- Hennessey, J. (2023). Overlooking Whiteness? : Discourses of Race and Primitiveness in Accounts of the Ainu by Benjamin Douglas Howard and Henry Savage Landor (1893). History and Anthropology. Taylor & Francis.
- Hennessey, J. (2022). Teaching European Colonial History in a "Humanitarian Superpower" : Presentations of Colonialism in Swedish Middle-School Textbooks. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy. Taylor & Francis.
- Hennessey, J. (2021). Contextualizing Colonial Connections : Reevaluating Takekoshi Yosaburō’s Japanese Rule in Formosa. Japan Review, 35, 141-164. International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto.
- Fur, G. & Hennessey, J. (2020). Introduktion: Svensk kolonialism, Sverige och kolonialism eller svenskar och kolonialism?. Historisk Tidskrift, 140, 375-384. Svenska historiska föreningen.
- Hennessey, J. (2020). A Colonial Trans-Pacific Partnership : William Smith Clark, David Pearce Penhallow and Japanese Settler Colonialism in Hokkaido. Settler Colonial Studies, 10, 54-73. Taylor & Francis.
- Hennessey, J. (2019). Assimilation, Association and French Advice to Japan on how to Rule Taiwan. French Colonial History, 18, 101-128. Michigan State University Press.
- Hennessey, J. (2019). By Jingo! : Methods for Researching Popular Imperialism. History Compass, 17. Wiley.
- Hennessey, J. (2019). Imperial Ardor or Apathy? : A Comparative International Historiography of Popular Imperialism. History Compass, 17. Wiley.
- Hennessey, J. (2018). Engineering Japanese Settler Colonialism in Hokkaido : A Postcolonial Reevaluation of William Wheeler’s Work for the Kaitakushi. Asia in Focus, 6, 2-13. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS).
- Hennessey, J. (2018). Moving Up in the World : Japan’s Manipulation of Colonial Imagery at the 1910 Japan-British Exhibition. Museum History Journal, 11, 24-41. Taylor & Francis.
- Hennessey, J. (2015). Creating a Colonial Consciousness? : Reflections on Audience Reception at the Tokyo Colonization Exposition of 1912. Asia in Focus, 2, 15-24. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS).
Book chapters (2)
- Hennessey, J. (2021). Fashioning a Scientific Persona in a Colonial Borderland : The Many Identities of William Smith Clark in 1870s Colonial Hokkaido. In Niskanen, K. & Barany, M. J. (Eds.) Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona : Incarnations and Contestations (pp. 55-81). Palgrave Macmillan.
- Hennessey, J. (2015). Shattered Images : French Indochina as a Failed Symbolic Resource. In Varnava, A. (Ed.) Studies in Imperialism, Imperial Expectations and Realities : El Dorados, Utopias and Dystopias (pp. 228-247). Manchester University Press.
Reports (1)
Working papers (1)
Reviews (9)
- Hennessey, J. (2023). Bert Edström, Master Spy on a Mission : The Untold Story of Onodera Makoto and Swedish Intelligence 1941–1945. Historisk Tidskrift, 143, 111-113. Svenska historiska föreningen.
- Hennessey, J. (2021). <書評>イーサン・マーク『第二次世界大戦における日本のジャワ占領 : 国境横断的歴史』. 日本研究, 203-206.
- Hennessey, J. (2019). Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan. Journal of Tourism History, 11, 213-215. Taylor & Francis.
- Hennessey, J. (2016). Robert Thomas Tierney, Monster of the Twentieth Century: Kōtoku Shūsui and Japan’s First Anti-Imperialist Movement. Itinerario, 40, 155-157. Cambridge University Press.
- Hennessey, J. (2016). Volker Barth, Roland Cvetkovski, eds. Imperial Co-operation and Transfer, 1870-1930: Empires and Encounters. H-Empire.
- Hennessey, J. (2015). A Tale of Two Biopolitical Regimes: The Mutually Constitutive Politics of Inclusion in Wartime Japan and America. H-Empire.
- Hennessey, J. (2015). Faye Yuan Kleeman, In Transit: The Formation of the Colonial East Asian Cultural Sphere. Japanese Studies, 35, 136-138. Routledge.
- Hennessey, J. (2014). Mutable Content, Durable Institutions: Reconceptualizing the "Public" in Prewar Japanese Museums. H-Empire.
- Hennessey, J. (2014). The Many Layers of Japanese Imperialism in Colonial Korea. H-Empire.
Teaching
Other tasks and qualifications
I have a Bachelor of Arts in history and French literature from the University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA), a master's degree in Asian Studies from Lund University and a PhD in history from Linnaeus University. I have studied and researched extensively in the United States, France, Japan and Sweden. My dissertation, Rule by Association: Japan in the Global Trans-Imperial Culture, 1868-1912, highlights Japan's engagement with globally circulating colonial ideas and practices during the period 1868-1912.
Researcher
- Division of History of Ideas and Sciences
- Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences
Contact information
E-mail john.hennesseykultur.luse
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30