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Annalisa Martin is a historian specializing in gender, sexuality, and welfare labor, with a particular focus on modern Germany. Currently a Research Associate under the Leverhulme Early Careers Fellowship, she is engaged in a new project that explores the microhistory of West German workhouses from approximately 1945 to 1979, emphasizing the experiences of inmates with particular attention to gender and sexuality. Her research also entails the study of commercial sex and prostitution in West Germany. Collaborating with Sonja Dolinsek of Magdeburg, she is in the process of creating an edited collection on the estate of sex worker activist Marc of Frankfurt, which is expected to be published in 2025. Prior to joining the University of Glasgow, she worked as a research associate at the University of Greifswald, Germany, and has also served as a doctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History in Potsdam. Martin completed her PhD at Birkbeck College, University of London in 2022.