John Hutchinson

John Hutchinson (born 1949) is a British academic. He is a reader in nationalism at the London School of Economics (LSE), in the Department of Government. Biography John Hutchinson was born in Warrenpoint, County Down, Northern Ireland. He graduated with an MA in modern history from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland in 1970; and his PhD in sociology in 1985 from the London School of Economics, where he was supervised by Anthony D. Smith. Academic career Before joining the LSE in 1999, Hutchinson taught in Australia at the interdisciplinary School of Humanities at Griffith University, 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 Nations and Nationalism. In addition, he sits on the advisory boards of the Institute for the Advancement of the Social Sciences]at Boston University and of the Study Platform on Interlocking Nationalisms at the University of Amsterdam.