Mathieu Fulla is a Faculty member at the Center for History at Sciences Po. His main research areas are the history of the European Left in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the history of the state, and the history of capitalism and its “financialization” from the 1970s onwards.

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Recent publications include ‘The Neoliberal Turn that Never Was: Breaking with the Standard Narrative of Mitterrand’s tournant de la rigueur’ Contemporary European history 33 (2024) 763-784; European socialists and the state in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan 2020) edited with M. Lazar. He is also co-editor of the French journal Parlement(s). Revue d’histoire politique.

Supervision areas: neoliberalism, history of the Left in Western Europe (20th and 21st centuries), post-1970 history of capitalism, politics and economic expertise.

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.

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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”.

Johanna Rainio-Niemi is Associate Professor in Political History at the University of Helsinki.

She is currently Co-PI in several research projects, e.g.: WelKnowHow: Compromise-building in a Welfare State: State Committees in Finland and Sweden as Inclusive Institutions; WelKnowHow: State Committees Institution in Finland and Sweden: A Case for Inclusive Democracy and Good Quality Policy Preparation?

Recent publications include ‘Neutrality Law in A Comparative Perspective: Austria, Switzerland, Finland‘ The Defence Horizon Journal (2023) with P. Hilpold et al.; ‘Social cohesion through policy coordination: The state, interests and institutions in Austria and Finland after 1945′, in: Ch. LIoyd, M. Hannikainen (ed.), Social Cohesion and Welfare States : From Fragmentation to Social Peace (Abingdon: Routledge 2022) 128-160.

Supervisions areas: modern and contemporary international history, post-1945 history of central and northern Europe, modern and contemporary migration history.

Jaroslav Valkoun is an assistant professor of general history at the Department of Historical Sciences, University of West Bohemia and the Department of Global History, Charles University, Prague.

His research interests include the history of the British Empire and the British Commonwealth of Nations in the 19^th and the 20^th century, and the history British Imperialism and Colonialism in Africa, particularly Egypt and the Sudan.

Recent publications include ‘Accepting Dominion Status as a Way of Reconciliation of British-Irish Disputes?’ Britain and the world 14 (2021) 1-21; Great Britain, the Dominions and the Transformation of the British Empire, 1907-1931: The Road to the Statute of Westminster (New York, NY: Routledge 2021).

Supervision areas: evolution of political elites since WWI, international relations, post-war history of Eastern Europe and Global South, British Empire

Barbara Klassa (second left) is Associate Professor at the University of Gdańsk. She specialises in the history of Polish and general historiography of the 19th and 20th centuries, and regional history.

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Recent publications include ‘Wives, Mothers, Female Warriors. The Image of Polish Women in Nineteenth Century American Historiography‘ Studia Historica Gedanensia 14 (2023) 242-262; ‘Almost forgotten – the first American history of Poland‘ Comenius. Journal of Euro-American Civilisation 4:1 (2017) 135-149.

Jenny Andersson is professor in the history of ideas and science at the Department of History of Science and Ideas of Uppsala Universitet. Previously, she has been a scholar with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and a researcher at Sciences Po in Paris.

Her researches focus on the intellectual history of contemporary social democracy, and the history of future research and concepts of the future in the post-war era. 

Recent publications include ‘Between responsibility and escape: The future as an object of knowledge in the humanities and social sciences’ European journal of social theory 27:2 (2024) 174-190; The future of the world : futurology, futurists, and the struggle for the post cold war imagination (Oxford University Press 2018).

Supervision areas: contemporary political ideologies, neoliberalism, social democracy, environmental history. 

Prof. dr. Jacco Pekelder is professor for modern and contemporary history of the Netherlands at the University of Münster (Germany) and director of the university Centre for Dutch Studies (ZNS). Until October 2021 he was an associate professor at the section History of International Relations (GIB) and honorary professor of Contemporary History of Western Europe at Saarland University, Saarbrücken (Germany).

His research focuses on the postwar history of Germany and the Netherlands in Europe, and the history of political violence and terrorism.

Recent publications include Die Zukunft der Demokratie in Deutschland und den Niederlanden. Parteien, Populismus und Medien (Münster: Waxmann 2023) edited with M. Dahlmer et al; Between Prague Spring and French May. Opposition and Revolt in Europe, 1960-1980 (New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books 2022) edited with M. Klimke et al.

Supervision areas: Dutch and German politics, German-Dutch relations, International relations and European politics, extremism and political violence.