Corinna Unger

Professor of Global and Colonial History (19th and 20th centuries)

Science in Europe – European Science?
The international history of rural development since 1950
International organizations, decolonization, and development in the twentieth century

English, German, French, Italian

For appointments please contact the Administrative Assistant: Miriam F. Curci

Postal address:
Department of History and Civilization
Via Bolognese 156
50139 Florence - Italy

Office SACA112 at Villa Salviati, Castello

International History (with Prof F. Romero, Dr M. Gago and Dr T. Milani) - First Term 2020/2021
Dissertation Writing Seminar A (with Prof P. Judson) - Second Term 2020/2021
The Emergence of Transnational Governance: Actors, Structures, Practices (Transnational Governance Master’s Programme) - First Term 2020/2021

“Making Science European: Towards a History of the European Science Foundation,” Contemporanea 23.3 (2020): 363-383.
“Development Projections: The World Bank in Calcutta in the 1970s,” Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development 11.1 (2020): 84-100.
International Development: A Postwar History (London: Bloomsbury, 2018).
"Postwar European Development Aid: Defined by Decolonization, the Cold War, and European Integration?,” in Stephen Macekura and Erez Manela, eds., The Development Century: A Global History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 240-260.
"International Organizations and Rural Development: The FAO Perspective", International History Review (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.