John Hennessey
John Hennessey Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Humanities, Education and Social SciencesEmail: am9obi5oZW5uZXNzZXk7b3J1LnNl
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About John Hennessey
John Hennessey is Senior Lecturer in History at Örebro University. Since 2023, he is also Associate Professor (docent) of the History of Ideas and Sciences (Lund University). A historian by training, his research interests include colonial history since 1850, modern Japanese history, transnational and transimperial history, propaganda and popular imperialism. His 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.