John Hennessey is a historian based at the Department for the History of Ideas and Sciences, Lund University. His dissertation, "Rule by Association: Japan in the Global Trans-Imperial Culture, 1868-1912" (Linnaeus University, 2018) examines the transimperial exchange of ideas about the assimilation of colonized peoples between the Japanese Empire and various Western empires. His current project examines globally-circulating racial discourses about the Ainu people and their political ramifications.