Marlene is one of ten selected scholars to receive the grant, which supports research and the consultation of primary sources at the Historical Archives of the European Union in Florence. She will focus on the history of building Europe as a story, about the branding of Europe in the post-war period and investigate the "European idea". Read more about the Grant here. 

At SCRIPTS she is supervised by Prof. Dr. Jessica Gienow Hecht. Her Topic: Branding a Liberal, United Europe: Western European Image Politics in the Post-War Era, 1948-1967.