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Dr. Corinna R. Unger

Research Fellow
German Historical Institute
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Washington DC 20009
U.S.A.
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Biographical Summary

Corinna R. Unger is a Research Fellow at the GHI. Her research focuses on the intersection of contemporary international history, cultural and social history, history of science, and history of ideas. She received her training at the University of Freiburg (PhD), Humboldt University and Free University in Berlin, and the University at Albany/SUNY (M.A.). Her publications include Ostforschung in Westdeutschland: Die Erforschung des europäischen Ostens und die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 1945-1975 (Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007) and, as a co-editor, Arnold Brecht (1884-1977): Demokratischer Beamter und politischer Wissenschaftler in Berlin und New York (Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006). She is currently working on a project titled West German and American Modernization Policies in India, 1945-1980.


Main Areas of Interest

  • Postcolonialism, development, and modernization; American and German history since 1945
  • Cold War and anticommunism
  • History of philanthropy
  • History of exile
  • History of science; historiography


GHI Research Projects

  • West German and American Modernization Policies in India, 1945 - 1980. more ...


Professional Positions

since 2005 German Historical Institute Washington DC, Research Fellow
2002 - 2005 Freiburg University, Research Associate
2001 - 2002 Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen, Research Assistant