Topic of PhD thesis: Branding a Liberal, United Europe: Western European Image Politics in the Post-War Era, 1948–1967

Education and Work Experience

• 11/2017-04/2020: Project Manager and Account Executive at BOROS GmbH, Berlin
• 09/2016-09/2017: Goldsmiths College, London, M.A. Cultural Policy, Diplomacy, and Relations (with distinction)
• 09/2015-01/2016: University of Versailles, St Quentin-en-Yvelines, France, ERASMUS European and International Studies
• 10/2012-06/2016: Humboldt University Berlin, B.A. Cultural History and Theory and Business Administration

Academic Appointments, Scientific Activities & Outreach

• 05/2017-06/2017: Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft e.V., Bonn, Federal Congress on Cultural Policy, Freelancer

Undergraduate:

Images of the Marshall Plan and US Influence in Western Europe After World War II, Marlene Ritter, Mondays, 10:00-12:00

• (Western) European Integration Histories of Cultural and Public Diplomacy
• (Nation) Branding
• Propaganda
• Soft Power Cultural Bordering Practices Visual History

Ritter, Marlene, and Gienow-Hecht, Jessica C. E. ‘Review of “Cultural Diplomacy in Europe: Between the Domestic and the International”, edited by Caterina Carta and Richard Higgott (London, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)’. Caliban 62 (2020): 407–10.