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Affiliated 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
John Hennessey is Associate Professor of the History of Ideas and Sciences, Lund University. He led the research project “Anomalous Aryans? Western Scientific Racismand the Ainu as a ‘Lost White Race,’ 1868-1941" between 2021 and 2025 with financing from the Swedish Research Council. The project investigated 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.
From 2026, he is Senior Lecturer in History at Örebro University. He can be reached at john.hennessey@oru.se.
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My profile in Lund University research portalI have a Bachelor of Arts in History and French Literature from the University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA) (2009), a Master's Degree in Asian Studies from Lund University (2011) and a PhD in History from Linnaeus University (2018). I was appointed Associate Professor (docent) in the History of Ideas and Sciences in 2023. 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.
Affiliated 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