Contact
Mail: elisa.heinrich@univie.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-4277-41215
Office Hours
by agreement via e-mail
Room1H 01 36
Dr.in Elisa Heinrich
Senior Research Fellow
Post-Doc / University assistant at the department of contemporary history in Prof.in Claudia Kraft's Team (since 4/2022)
Member of DFG-research network „Contemporary Queer Histories in German-speaking Europe“
Member of the Editorial team of Österreichischen Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften (OeZG)
Elisa Heinrich works on the history of Gender and Sexualities in the 19th and 20th centuries, on the history of social movements and the history of National Socialism.
In Winter term 2021/22 she was guest professor at the Institute for Contemporary History. She is a former Uni:Docs-Fellow at the University of Vienna, and held visiting fellowships at Cornelia Goethe Centrum, University Frankfurt/Main and at the Basel Graduate School of History. Before that she was part of a research project on the women's movement activist and 'voelkisch' politician Kaethe Schirmacher.
Her PhD thesis by the title 'Intimate and Respectable. Negotiations of Female Homosexuality and Friendship in German Women's Movements 1870-1914' received the Michael Mitterauer Sponsorship Award for Social, Cultural and Economic History, the Prize of the Gender Studies Association Austria (OeGGF) and the Johanna Dohnal Prize. It was published with V&R unipress in 2022.
Her current project focuses on an intersectional history of dis/ability, gender and sexuality in Austria in the second half of the 20th century.
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Curriculum Vitae and Publications
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Research topics
- Women's and Gender History
- Sexuality history of sexuality and queer history in the 19th and 20th centuries
- DisAbility History
- History of social movements
- Biographical research
- History and post-history of National Socialism
- Cultures of memory and remembrance
Selected Publications
- Equal rights, equal punishment? German feminists discuss the impending criminalisation of female homosexuality before World War I, in: Agnes Meisinger/Oliver Rathkolb (Hg.), Ideologische Transfers und Kontinuitäten. (Nach-)Wirkungen der NS-Zeit, zeitgeschichte 51 (2024) 2, 267−284 (peer reviewed)
- Kein Recht auf Wiedergutmachung. Kontinuitäten in Verfolgung und Diskriminierung Homosexueller nach 1945, in: Elisabeth Hussl/Horst Schreiber (Hg.), Gaismair Jahrbuch 2024: Alles in Ordnung, Innsbruck/Wien 2023, 24–31.
- Intim und respektabel. Homosexualität und Freundinnenschaft in der deutschen Frauenbewegung um 1900 (Sexualitäten in der Geschichte 1), Göttingen 2022