Elisa Heinrich is a historian whose research interests include the history of gender and sexuality in the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of social movements, and the memorial history of National Socialism.
In the 2021/22 winter semester, she held the position of visiting professor at the Institute of Contemporary History. Previously, she held the position of Uni:docs fellow and university assistant (prae doc) with visiting scholarships at the Basel Graduate School of History and the Cornelia Goethe Centre, University of Frankfurt/Main, as well as that of project collaborator on the FWF-funded research project on the women's movement activist and nationalist politician Käthe Schirmacher.
Her doctoral dissertation, which was completed in 2020, is entitled Intimate and Respectable. Aushandlungen von Homosexualität und Freundschaft in der deutschen Frauenbewegung 1870 bis 1914 was awarded the Michael Mitterauer Prize for Social, Cultural and Economic History, as well as the Prize of the Austrian Society for Gender Studies (ÖGGF), among other accolades. In 2022, it was published as Volume 1 in the series 'Sexualities in History / Sexualitäten in der Geschichte' by Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht.