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John Hennessey

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.

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Books (1)

Articles (13)

Book chapters (2)

Reports (1)

Working papers (1)

Reviews (9)

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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.

John Hennessey

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

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