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    Visiting Scholar

    at the Fritz Bauer Institut

    Émilie Duranceau-Lapointe

    Visiting Scholar Dorothee Freudenberg-Fonds

    since February 2026

    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 racialization of the legal system under National Socialism, and is 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.

    Publication
    • The case of Ruth Gützlaff. Navigating state-imposed categorization in Nazi Berlin, in: Rainer Kempling (ed.), DiverCITY. Jewish Berlin – Past and Present (Jahrbuch Selma Stern Zentrum für Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg 6), Berlin, Leipzig 2022, p. 14–37.

     

    Prof. Michaela Soyer, PhD

    Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers

    Februar to December 2024

    Dr. Viktoriya Latyshava

    Visiting Scholar Dorothee Freudenberg-Fonds

    April 2023 to March 2024

    Dr. Christina Winkler

    Visiting Scholar Dorothee Freudenberg-Fonds

    January 2022 to December 2022

    Sarah Crane M.A.

    (University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA)

    Fritz Bauer and the Auschwitz Trial. The Lessons and Limits of Transitional Justice
    Fulbright scholarship, September 2021 to August 2022

    Prof. Dr. Dmytro Tytarenko

    (Donetsk Institute of Law / Krywyj Rih)

    Visiting Scholar Dorothee Freudenberg-Fonds

    March 2021 to February 2022

    Dr. Maik Tändler

    (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)

    The history of the intellectual right in the Federal Republic from its founding until the 1990s

    C. and N. Weickart Postdoc Fellowship
    January to December 2021

    Dr. Gergely Kunt

    (University of Miskolc)

    The Public and Private Memory of »Children's Republic«. Gaudiopolis Orphanage in Post-World-War II Budapest

    C. and N. Weickart Postdoc Fellowship
    February 2020 to January 2021

    Dr. Martin Clemens Winter

    (Leipzig)

    Forced labor and mass murder of Jews in court. Nazi trials against employees of HASAG 1945–1967

    C. and N. Weickart Postdoc Fellowship
    April 2020 to December 2020

    Dr. med. Moritz Verdenhalven

    (Klinik für Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie, Frankfurt am Main)

    The Municipal and University Clinic for Nervous and Mental Illnesses (Städtische und Universitätsklinik für Nerven- und Gemütskranke) in Frankfurt am Main during the National Socialist period. Transfers, deaths and forced sterilizations

    Visiting scholar as part of the sponsorship model of the Department of Medicine at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, August 2019 to September 2020

    Samuel J. Miner B.A.

    (University of Maryland)

    Nazi Crimes and the Basic Law. War Crimes Trials and the Path to Militant Democracy

    Fulbright and DAAD scholarship, September 2018 to August 2019

    Dr. Filip Gańczak

    (Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw)

    Auschwitz in the interrogation room. Prof. Dr. Jan Sehn (1909–1965). A scholarly biography

    DAAD scholarship, January to February 2019

    Denisa Nešťáková M.A.

    (Comenius Universität Bratislava)

    Arab-Jewish relations during the British Mandate for Palestine through the perspective of the German Temple Society

    DAAD scholarship, October 2017 to July 2018

    Max Lazar M.A.

    (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

    Jerusalem on the Main: Jewish Integration in Frankfurt, 1914–1938

    DAAD scholarship, October 2017 to July 2018

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    Émilie Duranceau-Lapointe