Eric Le Bourhis is an historian and author of a dissertation on the transformations of the Soviet city of Riga after 1945 (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, EHESS, Paris, 2015). As a specialist of urban history and history of housing, he is currently posted to the Institute for Political Social Sciences (ISP, CNRS-UPN-ENS Paris Saclay) in Nanterre (Paris region). Since 2015, he has been leading with Isabelle Backouche and Sarah Gensburger an investigation centered on the “re-leasing” in 1943-1944 of nearly 9,000 Parisian apartments formerly inhabited by Jewish families. This research, focused on the archives of the housing department of the Prefecture of the Seine brings a profound knowledge of the anti-Semitic spoliation in Paris. His experience with spatial analysis and historical GIS serve as a driving methodological force for the team. Thanks to a post-doc fellowship from the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah (2016-2018), Le Bourhis is also conducting research on the spoliation of Jewish housing in Riga in 1941-1942. He examines the social interactions around the redistribution of apartments of Jewish families who had fled, been evicted, arrested, or interned in the ghetto, and the phenomena of cohabitation with non-Jews and exclusion in the months preceding the hermetic sealing of the ghetto in October 1941. Fluent in Latvian, German, and Russian, Le Bourhis is familiar with German, French, Latvian and Russian archives. Last publication: https://www.politika.io/en/notice/opportunities-and-antisemitism-housing-in-paris-19431944.