Katrin Schreiter is Senior Lecturer in German and History and a joint appointment in the Departments of Languages, Literatures & Cultures and History. She studied History, Political Science, and North American Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, where she was awarded a postgraduate fellowship for the United States. During her tenure at the Ohio State University, Katrin completed an MA in Diplomatic History in 2005. She then went on to earn a PhD in Modern European History at the University of Pennsylvania in 2012. Before joining King’s College London in 2013, she taught twentieth-century history at the University of Pennsylvania and in the Department of European Cultural History at the Universität Augsburg. Schreiter’s main research lies in the field of 20th-century German history. One area of focus has been the interplay of economics and culture during the Cold War, and how these arenas are connected to the politics of German and European diplomacy through negotiations over the German-German relationship. She employs material culture methodology as an anchor for identity discourses on national, regional, and individual levels. Related publications have included analysis of the two German states’ nation branding efforts as well as an examination of East German firm identity under the institutional pressures of communism. Recently, she has begun interdisciplinary work with relational databases and visualization tools to understand non-traditional connections and networks that can create business success.