Fields of research

• Global, international, and colonial history
• History of development
• History of knowledge 
• Cold war and decolonization
• Modern India
• Rural, agricultural and environmental history

Current research projects 

• The international history of rural development since 1950
• International organizations, decolonization, and development in the twentieth century

Selected recent publications

• "International Organizations and Rural Development: The FAO Perspective", International History Review (2018).
• International Development: A Postwar History (London: Bloomsbury, 2018).
• “The Decolonization of Development: Rural Development in India Before and After 1947,” in Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and José Pedro Monteiro, eds., Internationalism, Imperialism, and the Formation of the Contemporary World (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. 253-278.
• Rural Development in the Twentieth Century: International Perspectives. Theme issue of Comparativ 27.2 (2017), ed. with Marc Frey.
• Twentieth Century Population Thinking: A Critical Reader of Primary Sources (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2016). ed. with the Population Knowledge Network.
• Entwicklungspfade in Indien: Eine internationale Geschichte, 1947-1980 (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2015), Interview.