Pia Eiringhaus, M.Ed./M.A.
Pia Eiringhaus joined Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in November 2018. She is working towards her doctorate in the context of the DFG-funded project ‘Precarious kinship. Negotiations about adoption and incest after 1945’, which explores the post-1945 history of adoption in the Federal Republic of Germany. Before coming to our institute, Pia was a researcher at the Institute for Social Movements in Bochum. She spent the autumn of 2018 as a Research Fellow at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. She completed her history and teaching degree at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in March 2017. Her research interests are recent and contemporary German history, the history of education and the family, and cultures of history and memory around structural change and deindustrialisation. Pia recently published the monograph Industrie wird Natur. Postindustrielle Repräsentationen von Region und Umwelt im Ruhrgebiet, Schriftenreihe der Stiftung Bibliothek des Ruhrgebiets (Essen: Klartext 2018).