Émilie Duranceau-Lapointe is a visiting scholar at the Fritz Bauer Institute in 2026. She is preparing to publish her dissertation on Berlin's registry offices and the legal system of National Socialism, which was shaped by racial policies. She is also developing further research projects on the aftermath of racial categories in the GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany.
Émilie Duranceau-Lapointe holds a bachelor's and master's degree in sociology from the Université du Québec à Montréal and a master's degree in history from Concordia University in Montreal. In 2025, she received her doctorate from the University of Michigan with a historical dissertation entitled »Safeguarding Civil Records, Protecting German Blood: The Implementation and Administration of a Nazi Racial Legal Order at the Registry Office in Berlin.« Her research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, and the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), among others.
