PhD Topic: "Branding Europe. Western European Image Politics in the Post-War Years"

Education and Work Experience

• since 2020: PhD Candidate at Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script” (SCRIPTS)

• 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

Fellowships & Awards:

•  10/23–11/23: Vibeke Sørensen Grant, Historical Archives of the European Union, Florence, Italy

Work Experience:

•  04/2023–10/2024: Lecturer at John-F.-Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
• 09/2021–03/2022: Research Assistant at Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script” (SCRIPTS)
• 11/2017–04/2020: Project Manager and Account Executive at BOROS GmbH, Berlin
• 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, Mondays, 10:00-12:00

Undergraduate:

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

• (Western) European Integration
• Historical Practices of Place Branding, Cultural Diplomacy, and Propaganda
• Visual History
• Cultural Bordering and Politics of Belonging

Ritter, Marlene. “A Matter of Perception: Understanding the EU’s Image Problem.” SCRIPTS Blog, Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script” 75 (July 2024). Gienow-Hecht, Jessica, Tobias Klee, Marlene Ritter, and Lesar Yurtsever. “Welcome to the Liberal State! Place Branding as a Historical Practice.” SCRIPTS Working Paper Series, Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script” 48 (2024).

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.