Didier Fassin#
| Membership Number: | 5911 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://ias.edu https://www.ias.edu/sss/faculty/fassin |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 - present James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
- 2010 - present Visiting Professor at Princeton University
- 1999 - present Director of Studies, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
- 2019 - 2020 Annual Chair in Public Health, Collège de France
- 2010 - 2013 Visiting Professor, Princeton University and the University of Hong Kong
- 1991 - 2009 Assistant Professor then Professor (“exceptional class”) at the University of Paris North
- 1989 - 1991 Senior Researcher for IFEA (French Insitute for Research in the Andes-Equador)
Fields of Scholarship
- Political and moral anthropology
- Police, justice, prison and punishment
- Public social sciences
- Forms of life, ethics and politics of life
- Anthropology of public health
- Discrimination and racialization
- Humanitarianism, trauma and social suffering
- Immigration, asylum and exile
- Sociology of the social sciences
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Doctorat honoris causa of the University of Liège
- 2019 Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing for "Prison Worlds"
- 2019 Research Prize of the French Red Cross for contribution to the study of humanitarianism
- 2019 Eric Wolf Lecture at the University of Vienna
- 2018 Nomis Distinguished Scientist Award
- 2016 Tanner Lectures on Human Values at the University of California, Berkeley
- 2016 Adorno Lectures at the Goethe University of Frankfurt
- 2016 Recipient lecture for the Gold Medal in anthropology at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 2010 William A. Douglass Prize for the Best Book in the Anthropology of Europe of 2010 for "The Empire of Trauma"
- 2008 Advanced Grant – Programme IDEAS (European Research Council)
- 2007 « Professeur de Classe Exceptionnelle » (French highest distinction for professorship)
- 2007 « Chevalier des Palmes Académiques » (French distinction for academic involvement)
