Silke Mende is professor for modern and contemporary history (19th-21st century) at the University of Münster.

Her work focuses on German, French and European political history from the 19th century to the present day. Her research interests include the history of democracy and representation, social movements and protest, as well as New Imperial History.

OrcID: 0009-0006-0758-9569

Recent publications include: France, Allemagne, Afrique. Représentations, transferts, relations / Frankreich, Deutschland, Afrika. Repräsentationen, Transfers, Beziehungen (Stuttgart: Steiner 2024) edited with Emmanuel Droit and Anne Kwaschik; Ordnung durch Sprache: Francophonie zwischen Nationalstaat, Imperium und internationaler Politik, 1860–1960 (Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2020).

Supervision areas: history of democracy and representation, history of social movements, protest and political ecology, (post-)imperial perspectives in European history, German and French history in the “long 20th century”.