Didier Fassin | |
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Born | Didier Fassin August 30, 1955 |
Nationality | French |
Alma mater | Pierre and Marie Curie University (MD) (present day Sorbonne University) École des hautes études en sciences sociales (PhD) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Sociology, anthropology, public health |
Institutions | Institute for Advanced Study École des hautes études en sciences sociales Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris Collège de France |
Didier Fassin, born in 1955, is a French anthropologist and sociologist. He is a Professor at the Collège de France on the chair “Moral Questions and Social Issues in Contemporary Societies” and the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and holds a Direction of Studies in Political and Moral Anthropology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He was elected to the Academy of Europe in 2021[1] was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022.[2]