Didier Fassin

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Full Name	Didier Fassin
Occupation	Anthropologist
Date Of Birth	Aug 30, 1955(1955-08-30)
Age	69
Country	France
Horoscope	Virgo

Didier Fassin Biography

Didier Fassin is one of the most popular and richest Anthropologist who was born on August 30, 1955 in France.

After having been granted a fellowship by the French Institute for Andean Studies to investigate maternal mortality and living conditions among Indian women in Ecuador, Fassin became professor of sociology in 1991 at the University of Paris North. There, he created Cresp, the Center for Research on Social and Health Issues, working on public health problems such as the history of child lead poisoning in France and the politics of Aids in Sub- Saharan Africa.

Apart from his academic career, Fassin has been involved in various solidarity non-governmental organizations in France. In 1996 he founded the Medico-social Unit Villermé at the Hospital Avicenne to provide health care to uninsured and undocumented patients. He was administrator and later Vice-president of MSF, Doctors Without Borders, from 1999 to 2003, and is currently President of Comede, the Health Committee for the Exiles since 2006. A public intellectual, he frequently intervenes in the media on issues related to his research such as immigration, asylum, discrimination, social justice, law and order policies. He regards the social sciences as a form of “presence to the world” and has developed a program on the public life of ethnography.

Didier Fassin Net Worth

Didier Fassin is one of the richest Anthropologist from France. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Didier Fassin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Didier Fassin, born in 1955, is a French anthropologist and sociologist. He is 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 has been appointed to the Chair of Public Health at the Collège de France.

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In 2016, he received the Gold Medal of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography, which is awarded every three years to an anthropologist. That same year, he gave the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at the University of California, Berkeley, on “The Will to Punish”, and the Adorno Lectures at the Goethe University of Frankfurt on “A Critical Anthropology of Life”. In 2018, he was the first social scientist to be given the Nomis Distinguished Scientist Award, which will support five years of research on crises. As part of this program, he developed in collaboration with Axel Honneth, an international program on crisis and critique.

Facts & Trivia

Ryan-Mark Ranked on the list of most popular Anthropologist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in France. Didier Fassin celebrates birthday on August 30 of every year.

Top Facts about Didier Fassin

1. Didier Fassin is a French anthropologist born in 1955.
2. He is known for his work on social suffering and inequality.
3. Fassin has written over 20 books and numerous articles.
4. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 2018.
5. Fassin served as President of the Society for Social Studies of Science from 2009-2010.
6. He is currently a professor at Princeton University’s Institute for Advanced Study.
7. Fassin has conducted fieldwork in South Africa, Palestine, and France.
8. His research focuses on issues such as healthcare, migration, and policing.
9. Fassin co-founded the journal “Ethnography” in 2000.
10. He has been recognized as one of the most influential anthropologists today.