Eric Fassin

Éric Fassin taught from 1987 to 1994 in the United States (Brandeis University and New York University, at the Institute of French Studies), then in the Social Sciences Department at École normale supérieure in Paris from 1994 to 2012. He has since been a professor of sociology and gender studies at Paris 8 University (Vincennes – Saint-Denis). In 2015, he co-founded the Laboratoire d’études de genre et de sexualité (LEGS), the first and only CNRS research center on gender and sexuality in France. He is affiliated with the Political Science Department. In 2021, he also became a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He has taught as a Visiting Professor at New York University, Johns Hopkins University, the London School of Economics, the University of Geneva, the University of Bogota, the Colegio de México, Dehli University, Dôshisha University in Kyoto, the University of Barcelona (and lectured in many other universities). Starting from the United States and France, his research focuses on transnational sexual and racial politics, now at the heart of this authoritarian moment of neoliberalism. Public interventions related to his scholarly work have long been part of his work as a “sociologue engagé”