Person
Researcher, Associate Professor
- 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 Associate Professor of 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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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.
Researcher, Associate Professor
- 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