University of Michigan
Safeguarding Civil Records, Protecting German Blood: The Implementation and Administration of a Nazi Racial Legal Order at the Registry Office in Berlin
Émilie Duranceau-Lapointe is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Fritz Bauer Institute (2026). She is preparing the publication of her dissertation on the Berlin registry offices and the racialization of the legal order under the Nazi regime, and she is developing further research on the postwar afterlives of racial categories in East and West Germany.
She holds a BA and an MA in Sociology from the Université du Québec à Montréal and an MA in History from Concordia University in Montreal. She earned her PhD in History from the University of Michigan in 2025 with a dissertation entitled “Safeguarding Civil Records, Protecting German Blood: The Implementation and Administration of a Nazi Racial Legal Order at the Registry Office in Berlin.”