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.
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Articles in journals
- Hennessey, J. L. (2024). Overlooking Whiteness? Discourses of Race and Primitiveness in Accounts of the Ainu by Benjamin Douglas Howard and Henry Savage Landor (1893). History and Anthropology, 35 (4), 893-908. [BibTeX]
- Hennessey, J. (2023). Cutting Colonial Losses: Imperial Ideology in Media Coverage of the 1878 Transfer of Saint Barthélemy in Sweden and France. Scandinavian Journal of History, 49 (1), 46-68. [BibTeX]
- Hennessey, J. (2023). The Recurring “Discovery” of Hokkaido and the Ainu: Three Decades of Nineteenth-Century British Travelogues. Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 45 (3), 253-270. [BibTeX]
- Hennessey, J. (2022). George Montandon, the Ainu and the Theory of Hologenesis. Science in Context, 35 (2), 133-151. [BibTeX]
- Hennessey, J. L. (2022). Teaching European Colonial History in a “Humanitarian Superpower”: Presentations of Colonialism in Swedish Middle-School Textbooks. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 21 (4), 418-442. [BibTeX]
- Hennessey, J. L. (2021). Contextualizing Colonial Connections: Reevaluating Takekoshi Yosaburō’s Japanese Rule in Formosa. Japan Review, 35, 141-164. [BibTeX]
- Hennessey, J. (2019). A Colonial Trans-Pacific Partnership: William Smith Clark, David Pearce Penhallow and Japanese Settler Colonialism in Hokkaido. Settler Colonial Studies, 10 (1), 54-73. [BibTeX]
- Hennessey, J. L. (2019). Assimilation, Association, and French Advice to Japan on How to Rule Taiwan. French Colonial History, 18, 101-128. [BibTeX]
- Hennessey, J. (2019). By Jingo! Methods for Researching Popular Imperialism. History Compass, 17 (5). [BibTeX]
- Hennessey, J. (2019). Imperial Ardor or Apathy? A Comparative International Historiography of Popular Imperialism. History Compass, 17 (5). [BibTeX]
- Hennessey, J. (2018). Engineering Japanese Settler Colonialism in Hokkaido: A Postcolonial Reevaluation of William Wheeler’s Work for the Kaitakushi. Asia in Focus: A Nordic journal on Asia by early career researchers, 6, 2-13. [BibTeX]
- Hennessey, J. L. (2018). Moving Up in the World: Japan’s Manipulation of Colonial Imagery at the 1910 Japan–British Exhibition. Museum History Journal, 11 (1), 24-41. [BibTeX]
- Hennessey, J. (2015). Creating a Colonial Consciousness? Reflections on Audience Reception at the Tokyo Colonization Exposition of 1912. Asia in Focus: A Nordic journal on Asia by early career researchers (2), 15-24. [BibTeX]
Chapters in books
- Hennessey, J. (2024). Introduction to History and Speculative Fiction: Essays in Honor of Gunlög Fur. In: John L. Hennessey, History and Speculative Fiction (pp. 1-25). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [BibTeX]
- Hennessey, J. (2024). Preacher, Trader, Soldier, Spy: Studying Transimperial Individuals through their Occupational Roles. In: Bernhard C. Schär; Mikko Toivanen, Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe: At the Margins of Empire, 1800-1950 (pp. 17-36). London: Bloomsbury Academic. [BibTeX]
- Hennessey, J. (2024). Ted Chiang’s Counterphysical Stories and History of Science Pedagogy. In: John L. Hennessey, History and Speculative Fiction (pp. 151-168). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [BibTeX]
- Hennessey, J. (2021). Fashioning a Scientific Persona in a Colonial Borderland: The Many Identities of William Smith Clark in 1870s Colonial Hokkaido. In: Kirsti Niskanen; Michael Barany, Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona: Incarnations and Contestations (pp. 55-81). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [BibTeX]
- Hennessey, J. (2015). Shattered Images: French Indochina as a Failed Symbolic Resource. In: Andrekos Varnava, Imperial Expectations and Realities: El Dorados, Utopias and Dystopias (pp. 228-247). Manchester: Manchester University Press. [BibTeX]
Collections (editor)
- Hennessey, J. (ed.) (2024). History and Speculative Fiction. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [BibTeX]
Doctoral theses, monographs
- Hennessey, J. (2018). Rule by Association: Japan in the Global Trans-Imperial Culture, 1868-1912. (Doctoral dissertation). Växjö: Linnaeus University Press. [BibTeX]