• European and global history (especially nineteenth and twentieth century)
• Methodologies and theories of global history and of European Global Studies
• History of internationalism and of international organizations, transnational civil society movements, expert internationalism
• History of epidemics, epizootics and of veterinary medicine, history of zoonoses and food security, history of agrarian and medical internationalism
• Interdisciplinary approaches between history and veterinary medicine
• Research-based learning, use of new media in research and teaching

• Member of the research project "Global Information at a Glance".
• Coordination of research project ‘Global Politics on Screen’ (Digital Humanities Project and Research-Based Learning; Cluster Asia and Europe in a Global Context, Heidelberg University; with Prof. Dr. Madeleine Herren and Eric Decker). 
• Member of Research Project ‘LONSEA: Searching the Globe through the Lenses of the League of Nations’ (Project A3, Cluster Asia and Europe in a Global Context, Heidelberg University).
• Coordination of research project ‘Historical Perspectives on Transnational Networks in Environment, Agriculture, Food and Health’ (with Dr Amalia Ribi Forclaz; Project C6, Cluster Asia and Europe in a Global Context, Heidelberg University).
• Member of Research Project ‘Harbin – Jewish Cemetery’ (Dept. of History, Heidelberg University).

Since 09/2014: Scientific Manager of the Institute for European Global Studies, University of Basel

03/2014: Research Associate, European and Global History, Institute for European Global Studies, University of Basel

05/2013: PhD in Modern History, Heidelberg University (PhD Thesis: “Organizing Trust”: International Cooperation against Animal Diseases, 1863-1946)

Studies of History and Musicology at the Universities of Heidelberg and Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV).

• March 2015: ‘Digital Humanities for European Global Studies‘ (co-organizer), Europainstitut Basel.
• November 2014: ‘Statistics and policy-making during the 19th and 20th century‘ (with Milena Guthörl), Europainstitut Basel.
• October 2010: Conference ‘Networks in Times of Transition: Toward a Transcultural History of International Organisations’, Heidelberg University.
• June 2009: Workshop ‘Historical Perspectives on Transnational Networks in Agriculture, Food, Environment and Health’, University of Oxford (with Dr Amalia Ribi Forclaz; cooperation Heidelberg University and Modern European History Research Centre, University of Oxford).

Book

Cornelia Knab: Pathogens Crossing Borders. Global Animal Diseases and International Responses, 1860-1947, Abingdon, UK / New York, USA: Routledge, 2022.

Articles

Cornelia Knab: Civil Society Diplomacy? W.T. Stead, World Peace, and Transgressive Journalism, in: Comparativ 23/6 (2013), 22-51.

Cornelia Knab: Plague Times. Scientific Internationalism and the Manchurian Plague of 1910/11, in: Itinerario 35/3 (2011), 87-105.

Cornelia Knab: Infectious Rats and Dangerous Cows: Transnational Perspectives on Animal Diseases in the First Half of the Twentieth Century, in: Contemporary European History 20/3 (2011), 281-306.

Cornelia Knab und Amalia Ribi Forclaz: Transnational Co-Operation in Food, Agriculture, Environment and Health in Historical Perspective: Introduction, in: Contemporary European History 20/3 (2011), 247-255.

Michael Hässig, Claudio Paganini, Madeleine Herren, Cornelia Knab, and Barbara Simmen-Fritschy: Perzeption von Zoonosen in der Veterinärmedizin und Gesellschaft / Perception of zoonoses in veterinary medicine and society, in: Schweizer Archiv für Tierheilkunde 152/8 (2010), 355-362.

Cornelia Knab und Madeleine Herren: Die Zweite Haager Friedenskonferenz und die Liberalisierung des politischen Informationsmarktes, in: Die Friedens-Warte 82/4 (2007), 51-64.

Cornelia Knab: Die Auswirkungen der Französischen Revolution auf die Kurpfalz, in: Armin Kohnle et al. (ed.), "...so geht hervor ein' neue Zeit": Die Kurpfalz im Übergang an Baden 1803, Heidelberg et al. (2003), 43-56.

Reviews

Cornelia Knab, Rezension zu: Van Daele, J., Rodríguez García, M., Van Goethem, G., van der Linden, M. (Hgg.): ILO Histories. Essays on the International Labour Organization and Its Impact on the World During the Twentieth Century, in: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte 62/3 (2012), 531.

Editorship

Cornelia Knab und Amalia Ribi Forclaz (Hgg.): Special Issue: Transnational Co-Operation in Food, Agriculture, Environment and Health in Historical Perspective, in: Contemporary European History 20/3, 2011.