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Prof. Dr. Corinna Unger
Dean for Humanities and Social Sciences- and Professor of Modern European History
- School of Humanities & Social Sciences - SHSS
- History
- http://shss.jacobs-university.de/shss
- Mailing Address:
Jacobs University Bremen
Campus Ring 1
D-28759 Bremen
Germany - Email: c.unger@jacobs-university.de
- Telephone: +49 421 200-3371
- Fax: +49 421 200-3303
- Office: Research IV, Room 102 a/b
- Office Hours:
Mondays, 1.30 to 2.30 pm
- Research Interests:
• Modern European history
• Contemporary international and global history
• History of modernization, development, and land reform
• History of knowledge and science, esp. demography
- Other Information:
Research Network "Population, Knowledge, Order, Transformation:
Demography and Politics in the Twentieth Century in Global Perspective"
Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG):
http://www.jacobs-university.de/shss/demography-network - University Education:
2005 PhD in history from the University of Freiburg 2001 M.A. in history from the University at Albany, SUNY Undergraduate and graduate studies at the universities of Freiburg, Berlin, and Albany - Research and Teaching Positions:
2005 – 2010 Research Fellow, German Historical Institute Washington, DC 2002 – 2005 Research Associate, Department of History, University of Freiburg 2001 – 2002 Research Assistant, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen - Publications:
MonographsReise ohne Wiederkehr? Leben im Exil, 1933-1945 (Darmstadt: Primus, 2009).Ostforschung in Westdeutschland. Die Erforschung des europäischen Ostens und die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 1945-1975 (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2007).Edited BooksIndia in the World since 1947: National and Transnational Perspectives, co-edited with Andreas Hilger (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2012).Environmental Histories of the Cold War, co-edited with John R. McNeill (New York, Washington, DC: Cambridge University Press, German Historical Institute Washington, DC, 2010).Arnold Brecht (1884-1977): Demokratischer Beamter und politischer Wissenschaftler in Berlin und New York, co-edited with Claus-Dieter Krohn (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2006).Edited Journal IssuesBevölkerungswissenschaften im 20. Jahrhundert – Diskurse und Praktiken in transnationaler Perspektive. Thematic Issue of Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 33.3 (2010), co-edited with Heinrich Hartmann.Modernizing Missions: Approaches to “Developing” the Non-Western World after 1945. Thematic Issue of the Journal of Modern European History 8.1 (2010), co-edited with Andreas Eckert und Stephan Malinowski.Modernization as a Global Project. Thematic Issue of Diplomatic History 33.3 (2009), co-edited with David C. Engerman.Articles and Chapters
“Development Aid between National Interests and Philanthropy: American Public and Private Aid to the ‘Third World’ in the Postwar Era”, in Aid Norms and Aid Realities: Foreign Aid and its Dynamics in a Historical and Comparative Context, ed. Thorsten Borring Olesen and Helge Pharo (Oslo: Unipub, 2011). In press.
“The United States, Decolonization and the Education of Third World Elites”, in Elites and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century, ed. Jost Dülffer and Marc Frey (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 241-261.
“Indian Grains, American Philanthropy, and Global Development: The Green Revolution and the Modernization of India”, in Fifty Years of IRRI and Global Food Strategies, ed. Margreet van der Burg und Harro Maat (New York: CABI, 2011). In press.
"Helping Them Become Like Us: Development Aid as an Arena of European Identity Politics”, in Imagined Europeans: The Construction of the Homo Europaeus, ed. Matthias Middell (Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2011). In press.
"Einteilen, sparen, sinnvoll ausgeben": Entwicklungspolitische Diskurse über Geldverhalten und Geschlecht im 20. Jahrhundert”, L’Homme 22.2 (2011): 65-76
"Knappheit - Hemmnis oder Sprungbrett? Indische Entwicklungsstrategien zwischen Intervention und Eigensinn", Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften 1 (2011): 45-54.
“Towards Global Equilibrium: American Foundations and Indian Modernisation, 1950s to 1970s”, Journal of Global History 6.1 (2011): 121-142.
“Histories of Development and Modernization: Findings, Reflections, Future Research”, H-Soz-u-Kult, December 9, 2010, <http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/forum/2010-12-001>.
“Einleitung: Zur transnationalen Wissensgeschichte der Demografie”, with Heinrich Hartmann, Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 33.3 (2010): 235-245.
“Forum: Asia, Germany and the Transnational Turn”, with Jennifer L. Jenkins, Kris Manjapra, Hoi-eun Kim, Young-Sun Hong, and Bradley Naranch, German History 28.4 (2010): 516-536.
“Tradierungen und Transformationen: Die Erforschung des europäischen Ostens und die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 1945-1975”, in: Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 1920 bis 1970: Forschungsförderung im Spannungsfeld von Wissenschaft und Politik, ed. Karin Orth and Willi Oberkrome (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010), 407-424.
“Introduction: The Big Picture”, with John R. McNeill, in Environmental Histories of the Cold War, ed. John R. McNeill and Corinna R. Unger (New York, Washington, DC: Cambridge University Press, German Historical Institute Washington, DC, 2010), 1-18.
“Industrialization or Agrarian Reform? West German Modernization Policies in India in the 1950s and 1960s”, Journal of Modern European History, 8.1 (2010): 47-65.
“Investieren in die Moderne: Amerikanische Stiftungen in der ‚Dritten Welt’ seit 1945”, in Stifter, Spender und Mäzene: USA und Deutschland im historischen Vergleich, ed. Thomas Adam, Simone Lässig and Gabriele Lingelbach (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009), 253-286.
“Introduction: Towards a Global History of Modernization”, with David C. Engerman, Diplomatic History 33.3 (2009): 375-385.
“Rourkela, ein ‚Stahlwerk im Dschungel’: Industrialisierung, Modernisierung und Entwicklungshilfe im Kontext von Dekolonisation und Kaltem Krieg (1950-1970)”, Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 48 (2008): 367-388.
“Modernization à la mode. West German and American Development Plans for the Third World”, Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 40 (2007), 143-159.
“Cold War Science: Wissenschaft, Politik und Ideologie im Kalten Krieg“, Neue Politische Literatur 51.1 (2006): 49-68.
„Wissenschaftlicher und politischer Berater der US-Regierung im und nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg“, in: Arnold Brecht (1884-1977): Demokratischer Beamter und politischer Wissenschaftler in Berlin und New York, ed. Claus-Dieter Krohn and Corinna R. Unger (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006), 129-150.
“Objektiv, aber nicht neutral: Zur Entwicklung der Ostforschung nach 1945”, Osteuropa 55, 12 (2005): 113-31.
„Vom Beamtenrecht zur politischen Kultur. Die Vorschläge Arnold Brechts zur Reform des öffentlichen Dienstes der Bundesrepublik“, Kritische Justiz 36.1 (2003), 82-94.
- Other Professional Activities:
2010 – Editorial Board, H-Transnational German Studies 2010 – 2013 Oslo Contemporary International History Network 2008 – 2010 Board, Conference Group for Central European History
of the American Historical Association2007 – 2010 Editorial Board, Transatlantische Historische Studien Member of the American Historical Association, the German Studies Association, and the Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands. - Fellowships and Awards:
2010/11 Fellowship of the Historisches Kolleg (declined) 2002 – 2005 Dissertation Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 2000/01 Fulbright Scholarship - Research and Teaching Positions:
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