Rick Fantasia is the “Barbara Richmond 1940 Professor in the Social Sciences” and Professor of Sociology

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in the United States and Director of its Kahn Liberal Arts Institute. He frequently conducts research in

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, and his research interests include the interaction between labor and culture in the

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and France. He was particularly influenced by the French sociologist

Pierre Bourdieu Pierre Bourdieu (, ; ; ; 1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist and public intellectual. Bourdieu's contributions to the sociology of education, the theory of sociology, and sociology of aesthetics have achieved wide influ ...

, and is the former Director of the Louise W. and Edmund J. Kahn Liberal Arts Institute. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Publications

*''Cultures of Solidarity''. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1988 *(co authored with

Maurice Isserman Maurice Isserman (born 1951) is a Professor of History at Hamilton College. He has written about the Communist Party USA during the Popular Front period of the 1930s and 1940s, as well as the emergence of the New Left and the 1960s. He co-autho ...

) ''Homelessness: A Sourcebook''. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1994) *(co-editored with Rhonda F. Levine and Scott G. McNall). ''Bringing Class Back In: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives'', Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991 *(co-authored with

Kim Voss Kim Voss (born 1952) is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her main topics of research include social movements, the American labor movement The labour movement is the collective organisation of working peo ...

) ''Hard Work: Remaking the American Labor Movement''. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2004. Published in France as ''Des Syndicats Domestiqués: Répression patronale et résistance syndicale aux États-Unis''. Paris: Editions Raisons d’Agir, 2003. *''French Gastronomy and the Magic of Americanism. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018. ''French edition forthcoming from ''Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2021''.

References

External links

Rick Fantasia, Professor & Study Abroad Adviser
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