Dr Annalisa Martin

  • Research Associate - Leverhulme Early Careers Fellowship (History)

Biography

I am a historian of gender, sexuality, welfare and labour, with a focus on modern Germany. My new project is a microhistory of a West German workhouse (~1945-1979). The project foregrounds inmate experiences and places particular attention on questions of gender and sexuality.

My previous research has focussed on histories of commercial sex (prostitution) in West Germany. Together with Sonja Dolinsek (Magdeburg), I am currently working with the estate of sex worker and activist Marc-of-Frankfurt to create an edited source collection, to be published in 2025.

Before coming to Glasgow, I worked as a research associate (‘wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin’) at the University of Greifswald, Germany. Previously, I was an associated doctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, Potsdam, and completed my PhD at Birkbeck College, University of London, in 2022.  

Publications

Prior publications

ORCiD

Annalisa Martin, (2024) Incarceration as welfare: Transgressive female sexuality and the workhouse in West Germany, 1950–1969 Gender & History (doi: 10.1111/1468-0424.12812); source: Crossref

Annalisa Martin, (2024) Vice and Immoral Spaces Radical History Review (doi: 10.1215/01636545-11027548)(issn: 0163-6545)(issn: 1534-1453); source: Annalisa Martin

Annalisa Martin, (2023) ‘The Chronicle Must Tell How It Once Was’: Commercial Sex and Pimping in the Chronicle of Hamburg’s Postwar Vice Police German History (doi: 10.1093/gerhis/ghad017); source: Crossref

Annalisa Martin, (2023) ‘Cleaning up the cityscape’: managing commercial sex and city space in Cologne, 1956–1972 Prostitution in Twentieth-Century Europe (doi: 10.4324/9781003378976-9); source: Crossref Metadata Search

Annalisa Martin, (2022) ‘Cleaning up the cityscape’: managing commercial sex and city space in Cologne, 1956–1972 European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire (doi: 10.1080/13507486.2021.1971624)(issn: 1350-7486); source: Crossref Metadata Search


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