Ph.D. in Social Science, EHESS (1988)
Doctorate in Medicine, University of Paris 6 (1982)

Didier Fassin is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. An anthropologist and a sociologist, he has conducted field studies in Senegal, Ecuador, South Africa and France. Trained as a physician in internal medicine and public health, he dedicated his early research to medical anthropology, illuminating important issues about the AIDS epidemic, social inequalities in health and the changing landscape of global health. He later conducted research in political and moral anthropology, analyzing the reformulation of injustice and violence as suffering and trauma, and the expansion of an international humanitarian government. He recently made a contribution to an anthropology of the state, through an ethnography of police, justice and prison.His most recent work is on punishment, which he presented for the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Berkeley, and on life, which was the matter of the Adorno Lectures in Frankfurt.

2015-2016
ANT 570 Interdisciplinary Research: Keywords in Anthropology Today (with J. Biehl)

2013-2014
ANT 522A Topics in Theory and Practice of Anthropology (Half-Term) - Public Ethnography 

2012-2013
ANT 522A Topics in Theory and Practice of Anthropology (Half-Term) - From the Anthropology of Security to the Ethnography of Policing

2011-2012
ANT 522A Topics in Theory and Practice of Anthropology (Half-Term) - Moral Anthropology

2010-2011
ANT 541 Topics in Social Anthropology: Ethnography and Social Theory Today
(with J. Biehl)