LAC History Seminar Series: Practices of Political Representation in Early Republican Mexico

Conveners: Professor Eduardo Posada-Carbó and Timo Schaefer, University of Oxford

Speaker: Silke Hensel, University of Cologne

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Silke Hensel is professor of Latin American History at the University of Cologne since April 2021. 2004-2021 she was professor of “non-European” history at the University of Münster. Her main research concentrates on governance in the colonial era and state-building in the nineteenth century. She also focuses on migration, racism and violence. Her regional expertise lies in Mexico, the US, and the Cono Sur. Her books include El desarrollo del federalismo en México: La élite política de Oaxaca entre ciudad, región y estado nacional, 1786–1835. Oaxaca/San Luis Potosí/Zamora, Michoacán: Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca/El Colegio de San Luis/El Colegio de Michoacán 2012. She co-edited Dinámicas de inclusión y exclusión en América Latina. Conceptos y prácticas de etnicidad, ciudadanía y pertenencia, Frankfurt/Madrid 2015. Hensel is editor in chief of the Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas/Anuario de Historia de América Latina.