معرفی
Didier Fassin holds the James D. Wolfensohn Professorship in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He is also a Visiting Professor of Anthropology and concurrently affiliated with Princeton University. Trained as a physician (MD, University of Paris 6, 1982) and social scientist (PhD in Social Science from EHESS, 1988), his work bridges anthropology, sociology, and medicine.
Research Focus: His interdisciplinary research spans medical anthropology (AIDS epidemic, global health disparities), political/moral anthropology (humanitarian governance, trauma narratives), and state anthropology (police, justice systems). Recent work addresses punishment systems and the philosophical anthropology of life.
Teaching Contributions:
- 2015-2016: ANT 570 - Interdisciplinary Research: Keywords in Anthropology Today
- 2013-2014: ANT 522A - Public Ethnography
- 2012-2013: ANT 522A - Ethnography of Policing
- 2011-2012: ANT 522A - Moral Anthropology
- 2010-2011: ANT 541 - Ethnography and Social Theory
Awards & Recognition:
- Tanner Lectures on Human Values (Berkeley)
- Adorno Lectures (Frankfurt School)
His ethnographic fieldwork spans Senegal, Ecuador, South Africa, and France. Current research explores intersections between punitive systems and sociopolitical structures through a comparative lens.
