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John Hutchinson (academic)

John Hutchinson
Born 1949 (age 67–68)
Warrenpoint, County Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Alma mater  • University of Edinburgh
 • London School of Economics
Occupation Academic

John Hutchinson (born 1949) is a British academic. He is a reader in nationalism in the Department of Government at the British London School of Economics (LSE), located in London, England.

Born in Warrenpoint, County Down, Northern Ireland, he graduated with a Master of Arts in modern history from the University of Edinburgh, located in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1970; and his Doctor of Philosophy in sociology in 1985 from the London School of Economics, where he was supervised by Professor Anthony D. Smith.

Before joining the LSE in 1999, Hutchinson taught in Australia at the interdisciplinary School of Humanities at Griffith University, located in Brisbane, Queensland, from 1974 to 1979, and from 1986 to 1999, where he became associate professor.

He is vice-president of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism and deputy editor of Nations and Nationalism. In addition, he sits on the advisory boards of the Institute for the Advancement of the Social Sciences at the American Boston University, located in Boston, Massachusetts; and of the Study Platform on Interlocking Nationalisms at the Dutch University of Amsterdam, located in Amsterdam.

Hutchinson is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work has contributed to theories of nationalism, the study of cultural nationalism, notably in Ireland, and more recently, warfare and nationalism.


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