Éric Fassin (; born 1959) is a French sociologist.

Career

Fassin taught in the United States from 1989 to 1994, at

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and

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. From 1994 to 2012, he was an ''agrégé'' professor of

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in the Department of Social Sciences at the

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. Fassin currently serves as a professor of sociology at the University of Paris 8 St-Denis. He is also a researcher at Institut de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux sociaux.Éric Fassin « Ils ont renoncé aux euphémismes
8 4 2011 He also served as a contributing editor of '' Public Culture'', a scholarly journal published by

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Research

Fassin's research focuses on contemporary sexual and racial politics in France and the United States and their intersections (in particular, concerning immigration issues in Europe) in a comparative perspective. He is author of ''L'inversion de la question homosexuelle'' (2005), ''Droit conjugal et unions de même sexe: mariage, partenariat et concubinage dans neuf pays européens'' (with Kees Waaldijk, 2008) and ''Le sexe politique. Genre et sexualité au miroir transatlantique'' (2009).

Publications

* ''Au-delà du pacs'' with Daniel Borrillo, published by Presses Universitaires de France in 1999. * ''Liberté, égalité, sexualités : Actualité politique des questions sexuelles'' with Clarisse Fabre, published by Belfond in 2004. * ''L'inversion de la question homosexuelle'' (''The Inversion of the Homosexual Question''), published by Éditions Amsterdam in 2005. * ''De la question sociale à la question raciale ?'' (From the Social Question to the Racial Question?) with

Didier Fassin Didier Fassin, born in 1955, is a French anthropologist and sociologist. He is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University and holds a Direction of Studies in Political and Moral ...

, published by

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in 2006. * He is currently working on ''The Rising Significance of Race in France'' for the

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, also with

References

External links

Author profile from Public Culture

Profile from African American Policy Forum
1959 births Living people French sociologists Academic staff of the École Normale Supérieure French male writers {{France-academic-bio-stub