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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

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2026

Dolinsek, Sonja and Martin, Annalisa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8604-5677 (2026) Beruf Sexarbeit: Quellen und Dokumente aus dem Nachlass von Marc-of-Frankfurt (2000–2015). Series: Transnational queer histories (3). De Gruyter Brill. ISBN 9783111605692 (doi: 10.1515/9783111608228)

2025

Martin, Annalisa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8604-5677 (2025) Prostitution as profession: histories of ‘work-shy’ labour in a welfare state, West Germany between 1949 and 1974. Contemporary European History, (doi: 10.1017/S0960777325000013) (Early Online Publication)

2024

Martin, Annalisa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8604-5677 (2024) Incarceration as welfare: transgressive female sexuality and the workhouse in West Germany, 1950–1969. Gender and History, 36(3), pp. 920-937. (doi: 10.1111/1468-0424.12812)

Martin, Annalisa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8604-5677 (2024) Vice and immoral spaces. Radical History Review, 2024(149), pp. 175-199. (doi: 10.1215/01636545-11027548)

2023

Martin, Annalisa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8604-5677 (2023) ‘The chronicle must tell how it once was’: commercial sex and pimping in the chronicle of Hamburg’s postwar vice police. German History, 41(2), pp. 252-278. (doi: 10.1093/gerhis/ghad017)

2022

Martin, Annalisa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8604-5677 (2022) ‘Cleaning up the cityscape’: managing commercial sex and city space in Cologne, 1956–1972. European Review of History: Revue europeenne d'histoire, 29(2), pp. 311-330. (doi: 10.1080/13507486.2021.1971624)

This list was generated on Thu Feb 19 21:31:07 2026 GMT.
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Number of items: 6.

Articles

Martin, Annalisa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8604-5677 (2025) Prostitution as profession: histories of ‘work-shy’ labour in a welfare state, West Germany between 1949 and 1974. Contemporary European History, (doi: 10.1017/S0960777325000013) (Early Online Publication)

Martin, Annalisa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8604-5677 (2024) Incarceration as welfare: transgressive female sexuality and the workhouse in West Germany, 1950–1969. Gender and History, 36(3), pp. 920-937. (doi: 10.1111/1468-0424.12812)

Martin, Annalisa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8604-5677 (2024) Vice and immoral spaces. Radical History Review, 2024(149), pp. 175-199. (doi: 10.1215/01636545-11027548)

Martin, Annalisa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8604-5677 (2023) ‘The chronicle must tell how it once was’: commercial sex and pimping in the chronicle of Hamburg’s postwar vice police. German History, 41(2), pp. 252-278. (doi: 10.1093/gerhis/ghad017)

Martin, Annalisa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8604-5677 (2022) ‘Cleaning up the cityscape’: managing commercial sex and city space in Cologne, 1956–1972. European Review of History: Revue europeenne d'histoire, 29(2), pp. 311-330. (doi: 10.1080/13507486.2021.1971624)

Books

Dolinsek, Sonja and Martin, Annalisa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8604-5677 (2026) Beruf Sexarbeit: Quellen und Dokumente aus dem Nachlass von Marc-of-Frankfurt (2000–2015). Series: Transnational queer histories (3). De Gruyter Brill. ISBN 9783111605692 (doi: 10.1515/9783111608228)

This list was generated on Thu Feb 19 21:31:07 2026 GMT.

Prior publications

Other

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


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