Jan Hua-Henning is a historian of technology and risk, specializing in Germany and the United States. His work engages with science and technology studies, urban history, and critical disaster studies. His teaching interests at Duke Kunshan University include Global Challenges in Science, Technology, and Health; Global Histories of Risk and Disaster; and the History of Infrastructure.

He has published in leading academic journals for the history of technology, including Technology & Culture, and History and Technology. Hua-Henning's work analyzes the origins and politics of risk response. Currently, he is completing a book on Fire and Technology in Germany and the United States. At Duke Kunshan he also leads a project on global histories of risk and disaster.

Hua-Henning has an M.A. in history from the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany. He received his Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of science and technology from the University of Toronto, Canada. Before joining Duke Kunshan University, he was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Free University Berlin.