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Melanie Lorek is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Before coming to the Graduate Center, she finished her M.A. (Diplom) in Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany. Her research interests include sociology of culture, research methods, and visual sociology. Her dissertation focuses on how East Germans and the reunified Germany remember the GDR. Her work centers on topics of identity after the German reunification in 1989, as well as issues of critique, subculture, and censorship in the German Democratic Republic. Melanie has presented her work on East German memory and identity, and collective representations at several conferences. She has taught courses at The City College of New York, The College of Staten Island, and CUNY’s online campus, the School of Professional Studies. Her courses include Research Methods, Mass Communication, Social Problems, Visual Sociology, and Sociology of Culture.