Kenji Larsson (b. 1984) is a Swedish-Japanese historian of material culture whose research follows small technologies through big histories. Educated at Uppsala University (B.A.) and the University of Cambridge (Ph.D., maritime archaeology), he has held posts at the University of Gothenburg and the Roskilde Viking Ship Museum. His fieldwork spans dhow yards in Beypore and Sur, ropewalks in Chatham, and cedar shipwrights along the Seto Inland Sea.
Larsson is the author of the award-winning Lines in Water: A Microhistory of Rope and Timber Empires: Wood, War, and the Northern Seas. His essays have appeared in Past & Present and Mariner's Mirror, and he received the Skagerrak Prize for Maritime Studies in 2020. He lives in Malmö with his partner and an elderly terrier named Pitch.
