Émilie Duranceau-Lapointe Ph.D.
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 Ph.D.
Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers
Februar to December 2024
Visiting Scholar Dorothee Freudenberg-Fonds
April 2023 to March 2024
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
