Ingeborg Cleve is an independent writer and cultural historian. She received her PhD in cultural studies from the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen and was an assistant professor of modern history at the Universität des Saarlandes. Her research focused on European consumer history, museum history, and the cultural history of the German Democratic Republic. Since her junior year at the University of California at Los Angeles, her guiding interest has been the role of visual culture and literature in social imagination. Between 2015 and 2020 she served as president of the American German Business Club Wiesbaden - Mainz.