Silke Hensel

Silke Hensel is professor of Latin American history at the University of Cologne since April 2021. From 2004 to 2021 she was professor at the University of Münster. She specializes in Mexican history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and focuses on statebuilding, the history of administration and political culture. Another focus of her work lies in the migratory history of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans to the United States. Since 2017 she is chief editor of the Jahrbuch für Lateinamerikanische Geschichte/Anuario de Historia de América Latina.