Corinna R. Unger received her PhD in History from the University of Freiburg, Germany, in 2005 and joined the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC, as a research Fellow the same year. She is currently working on a study titled Modernization in Theory and Practice: American and German Aid to India, 1947 1980. Her books include Ostforschung in Westdeutschland (2007) and Reise ohne Wiederkehr (2009).