Éric Fassin
Born	1959 (age 66–67)
Occupation	Sociologist
Academic work
Main interests	Contemporary sexual and racial politics in France and the United States

Éric Fassin (French:[fasɛ̃]; born 1959) is a French sociologist.

Fassin taught in the United States from 1989 to 1994, atBrandeis University andNYU. From 1994 to 2012, he was anagrégé professor ofsociology in the Department of Social Sciences at theÉcole Normale Supérieure inParis.^[1]

Fassin currently serves as a professor of sociology at the University of Paris 8 St-Denis. He is also a researcher atInstitut de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux sociaux.^[2] He also served as a contributing editor ofPublic Culture, a scholarly journal published byDuke University Press.

Fassin's research focuses on contemporary sexual and racial politics in France and the United States and their intersections (in particular, concerning immigration issues in Europe) in a comparative perspective. He is author ofL'inversion de la question homosexuelle (2005),Droit conjugal et unions de même sexe: mariage, partenariat et concubinage dans neuf pays européens (with Kees Waaldijk, 2008) andLe sexe politique: Genre et sexualité au miroir transatlantique (2009).

• Au-delà du pacs with Daniel Borrillo, published byPresses Universitaires de France in 1999.
• Liberté, égalité, sexualités : Actualité politique des questions sexuelles with Clarisse Fabre, published by Belfond in 2004.
• L'inversion de la question homosexuelle (The Inversion of the Homosexual Question), published by Éditions Amsterdam in 2005.
• De la question sociale à la question raciale ? (From the Social Question to the Racial Question?) withDidier Fassin, published byLa Découverte in 2006.
• He is currently working onThe Rising Significance of Race in France for theUniversity of Chicago Press, also withDidier Fassin.
• Éric Fassin;Carine Fouteau; Serge Guichard; Aurélie Windels (2014),Roms & riverains, Une politique municipale de la race (in French), La Fabrique,ISBN 978-2-35872-057-1

• Author profile from Public Culture
• Profile from African American Policy Forum

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