Elisa-Maria Hiemer's research is situated at the intersection of history and literature, with a particular focus on social narratives with a focus on Poland. In addition to the topics of memory cultures and urban space, she conducted research at the Herder Institute from 2019-2022 on discourses of motherhood, abortion and sexuality in interwar Poland. She blogs about her research as @researching.poland on Instagram.
Selected publications:
- Sexuality and Abortion in Interwar Poland. Maternity in (Times of) Crisis? Budapest: CEU Press, forthcoming 2024.
- Podcast of the Pol-Int Platform: Sexualität, Abtreibung und Familie im Polen der Zwischenkriegszeit [Sexuality, Abortion and Family in Interwar Poland]: https://www.pol-int.org/de/wissenschaftsblog-polenstudien/sexualitaet-abtreibung-und-familie-im-polen-der-zwischenkriegszeit
- “The Family as ‘Best Weapon’. Instrumentalising German health care discourses in Upper Silesia during the Interwar Period” in Journal of Family History, (48)3, 2023, 261–77, https://doi.org/10.1177/03631990231160093.
