Corinna Unger

Corinna Unger is Professor of History at the European University Institute (EUI), holding the Chair in Global and Colonial History within the Department of History and Civilisation. She actively participates in the Queer and Feminist Studies Interdisciplinary Working Group and the LGBTQ Caucus, reflecting her commitment to gender-focused scholarship.

Her research centers on the intersections of global colonial history, gender dynamics, and population policies, with particular emphasis on twentieth-century family planning discourses, postcolonial development frameworks, and the construction of gendered economic behaviors. She examines how rational choice theories and systems approaches shaped international family planning initiatives, especially in South Asian contexts like post-1947 India, revealing the complex interplay between demographic transitions and social norms.

Analysis of her recent publications demonstrates a consistent trajectory exploring how gendered power structures influenced development policies, family norms, and population control mechanisms across colonial and postcolonial settings. Her work bridges historical methodology with gender studies and demography, highlighting transnational policy flows and the socio-cultural construction of economic behaviors in twentieth-century development discourse.