Dr. Katrin Schreiter

Biography

Katrin Schreiter is a Senior Lecturer in German History at King's College London. She studied History, Political Science, and North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, where she was awarded a postgraduate fellowship in the United States. She completed her MA in Diplomatic History in 2005 and earned her PhD in Modern European History from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012. Since joining King's College London in 2013, she has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and at the Department of European Cultural History at Universität Augsburg. Her main research focuses on 20th-century German history, particularly the interplay between economy and culture during the Cold War, examining topics such as German-European diplomacy and the German-German relationship. Future projects include comparing colonial ports and their socio-cultural impacts on identities. She has been involved in public engagement projects and has given numerous media interviews and contributions to academic publications, enhancing public understanding of postwar German history and current political culture. Her work is recognized in the field, contributing to important discourse on material culture and historical methodology.

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