The Department is interested in understanding the interconnected character of our world, its roots, and the place of Europe in it. The economic and environment challenges of our globalising world lead us to study empires – European and non‐European, early modern and modern alike – in novel ways. We therefore seek not only to investigate the textures of colonial and postcolonial societies but also to consider wider geographical and cultural nexus like the Eurasian, Mediterranean, Atlantic, and Pacific worlds.
Corinna Unger
Full-time Professor
Department of History and Civilisation
Twentieth-Century International Economic Thinking, and the Complex History of Globalization
Experiencing Epidemics: Sharing Historical Research on Past Epidemics
European ‘Factories’ of the Indian Ocean, 1500-1800
Colonial legacies, invisible institutions, and financial markets in Latin America (and beyond)
Carletti's World: An Early Modern Global Voyage
The Muslim World Working Group
Cultural Heritage Working Group
Conversation on New Histories of Capitalism