Person

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
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
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