Corinna R. Unger is Professor of Global and Colonial History (19th and 20th centuries) at the Department of History of the European University Institute (EUI). She served as Head of Department from 2022 to 2024.

Together with Professor Joanne Scott, she established and co-directed the interdisciplinary research cluster Environmental Challenges and Climate Change Governance (2020-2024).

From 2019 to 2022, she served as the Academic Coordinator of CIVICA’s Work Package 5: A European School for the Training for Early Stage Researchers.

Before joining the EUI, she was Associate Professor of Modern European History at Jacobs University Bremen, Germany, and Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute Washington, DC, USA. She received her PhD from the University of Freiburg, Germany, in 2005.

Her research in recent years has focused on the history of development; on environmental history in international perspective; on the history of agriculture and rurality; and on the history of European science policy.

She currently serves as Project Partner in the research project Chemical Crossroads: Agrarian Transitions, Pesticide Controversies and International Governance, 1940-1970, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

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Europe in the world Global history Empires Colonialism History of science Environmental history 20th century (Twentieth century) Political history Transnational history Globalisation International history European integration Decolonisation Cold War Modern history