What was the name of the employer Didier Fassin work for from 1991 to 1999?
Didier Fassin 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 . Career . Initially trained as a physician in Paris , Fassin practiced internal medicine as an infectious disease specialist at the Hospital Pitié-Salpétrière and taught public health at the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie . He has been the physician of the Home for the Dying in Calcutta and the initiator of a national program of prevention of rheumatic heart disease in Tunisia where it was the first cause of death among young adults . Later shifting to the social sciences , he received his M.A . from the University of Paris , and his PhD from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales , writing his thesis on power relations and health inequalities in Senegal . 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 . Elected in 1999 as director of studies in social anthropology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales , Fassin founded and directed from 2007 to 2010 Iris , the Interdisciplinary Research Institute for Social Sciences , in an effort to bring together anthropologists , sociologists , historians , political scientists and legal scholars around contemporary political and social issues . He himself developed a long-term program exploring the multiple facets of humanitarianism in local and international policies , especially towards the poor , the immigrant and refugees , as well as victims of violence and epidemics . In parallel , he launched a research project on borders and boundaries in an attempt to articulate the issues around immigration and racialization , which were at the time dealt with in separate fields . In 2008 , Fassin received an Advanced Grant by the European Research Council for his program Towards a Critical Moral Anthropology . To reappraise theoretical issues in the analysis of morals and moralities , he started an ethnographic research on police , justice and prison in France . This research gave birth to the proposal of a moral anthropology of the state . In 2009 , he succeeded Clifford Geertz at the Institute for Advanced Study , in Princeton , and became the first James D . Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science . His inaugural public lecture was entitled “Critique of Humanitarian Reason” . In 2010 , he also became Visiting Professor at the Universities of Princeton and Hong Kong . In 2019 he was elected at the Collège de France on the Annual Chair in Public Health . His Leçon inaugurale was on The Inequality of Lives . 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 . Engagement . In France , Fassin has been involved in the politics of science , as a member of the Scientific Council of the French Institute of Health and Medical Research ( Inserm ) , and of the Scientific Council of the City of Paris . In 2006 , he became the chair of the Committee for Humanities and Social Science in the French National Agency for Research , the main funding agency for scientific research in France . In 2017 , he was appointed to the Scientific Council of the Contrôleur général des lieux de privation de liberté , the independent French Ombudsman for Prisons . In the United States , as a member of the Committee of World Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association from 2010 to 2013 , he was committed to the global exchange of knowledge and the reduction of the gap between the North and the South in the development of social science . This concern translated in 2015 in a three-year cycle Summer Program in Social Science for Latin American , Middle Eastern and African junior scholars . In connection with his work on prison and punishment , Fassin was invited in 2018 to join the New Jersey Criminal Sentencing and Disposition Commission , which has been appointed by the Governor of the State to make recommendations about the penal and corrections system , as Guest Advisor . 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 . Distinctions . - 2007 : Chevalier des Palmes Académiques ( French distinction for commitment to higher education ) - 2008 : Laureate of the Advanced Grant Ideas by the European Research Council for Towards a Critical Moral Anthropology . - 2010 : Douglass Prize for the Best Book in the Anthropology of Europe for The Empire of Trauma - 2010 : France Culture Award of the Best Essay for Les Nouvelles Frontières de la Société Française - 2012 : Honorable Mention for the Bateson Prize by the Society for Cultural Anthropology for Humanitarian Reason - 2016 : Vega Gold Medal , Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography , awarded for scientific contribution to anthropology - 2018 : Nomis Distinguished Scientist Award , in recognition of exploration of unconventional academic paths - 2019 : Research Prize of the French Red Cross Foundation , for work on moral economies and the innovative perspective it offers on the analysis of international humanitarian aid - 2019 : Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing for Prison Worlds . An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition - 2020 : Doctorate Honoris Causa of the University of Liège . - 2020 : Writing Residency at the Villa Medici , French Academy in Rome Major publications . As Author . - Pouvoir et Maladie en Afrique . Anthropologie Sociale de la Banlieue de Dakar , Paris : Presses Universitaires de France , 1992 . - LEspace Politique de la Santé . Essai de Généalogie , Paris : Presses Universitaires de France , 1996 . - Les Enjeux Politiques de la Santé . Etudes Sénégalaises , Équatoriennes et Françaises , Paris : Karthala , 2000 . - When Bodies Remember . Experience and Politics of AIDS in South Africa , Berkeley : University of California Press , 2007 ( French version La Découverte 2006 ) . - The Empire of Trauma . An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood , with Richard Rechtman , Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2009 ( French version L’Empire du Traumatisme , Flammarion , 2007 ) . - Humanitarian Reason . A Moral History of the Present , Berkeley : University of California Press , 2011 ( French version La Raison Humanitaire , Hautes Etudes-Gallimard-Seuil , 2010 ) . - Enforcing Order . An Anthropology of Urban Policing , Cambridge : Polity Press , 2013 ( French version La Force de l’Ordre . Une Anthropologie de la Police des Quartiers , Paris : Seuil , 2011 ) . - At the Heart of the State . The Moral World of Institutions , with Yasmine Bouagga et al . ( French version Juger , Réprimer , Accompagner . Essai sur la morale de l’État , Paris : Seuil , 2011 ) . - Four Lectures on Ethics . Anthropological Perspectives , with Michael Lambek , Veena Das and Webb Keane , Chicago : Hau Books . - Prison Worlds . An Anthropology of the Carceral Condition , Cambridge : Polity Press , 2016 ( French version L’Ombre du monde . Une anthropologie de la condition carcérale , Paris : Seuil , 2011 ) . - The Will to Punish , ed . by Christopher Kutz , Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2018 ( French Version Punir . Une passion contemporaine , Paris : Seuil , 2017 ) . - Le monde à l’épreuve de l’asile . Essai d’anthropologie critique , ( Charenton-le-Pont : Presses de la Société d’ethnologie , 2017 ) . - Life . A Critical Users Manual , Cambridge , UK ; Medford , MA : Polity Press , 2018 ( French Version La Vie . Mode demploi critique , Paris : Seuil , 2018 ) . - Mort dun voyageur . Une contre-enquête , ( Paris : Seuil , 2020 ) . As editor . - Sociétés , Développement et Santé ( with Yannick Jaffré ) , Paris : Ellipses , 1990 . - Mujeres de los Andes . Condiciones de Vida y Salud ( with Anne-Claire Defossez et Mara Viveros ) , Bogotá : Universidad Externado de Colombia-IFEA , 1992 . - Les Lois de lInhospitalité . Les Politiques de l’Immigration à lÉpreuve des Sans-papiers ( with Alain Morice et Catherine Quiminal ) , Paris : La Découverte , 1997 . - Les Figures Urbaines de la Santé Publique . Enquête sur des Expériences Locales , Paris : La Découverte , 1998 . - Les Inégalités Sociales de Santé ( with Annette Leclerc , Hélène Grandjean , Thierry Lang et Monique Kaminski ) , Paris : Inserm-La Découverte , 2000 . - Critique de la Santé Publique . Une Approche Anthropologique ( avec Jean-Pierre Dozon ) , Paris : Balland , 2001 . - Le Gouvernement des Corps ( with Dominique Memmi ) , Paris : Editions de l’Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales , 2004 . - Les Constructions de l’Intolérable . Etudes d’Anthropologie et d’Histoire sur les Frontières de l’Espace Moral ( with Patrice Bourdelais ) , Paris : La Découverte , 2005 . - De la Question Sociale à la Question Raciale ? Représenter la Société Française ( with Eric Fassin ) , Paris : La Découverte , 2006 , 2nd edition 2010 . - Les Politiques de l’Enquête . Epreuves Ethnographiques ( with Alban Bensa ) , Paris : La Découverte , 2008 . - Contemporary States of Emergency . The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions ( with Mariella Pandolfi ) , New York : Zone Books , 2010 . - L’Etat des Savoirs de la Santé Publique ( with Boris Hauray ) , Paris : La Découverte , 2010 . - Les Nouvelles Frontières de la Société Française , Paris : La Découverte , 2010. , 2nd édition 2012 . - Économies morales Contemporaines ( with Jean-Sébastien Eideliman ) , Paris : La Découverte , 2012 . - Moral Anthropology . A Companion , Malden : Wiley-Blackwell , 2012 . - Moral Anthropology ; A Critical Reader , with Samuel Lézé , London : Routledge , 2014 . - If Truth Be Told . The Politics of Public Ethnography , Durham : Duke University Press , 2017 . - Writing the World of Policing . The Difference Ethnography Makes , Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 2017 . - A Time for Critique , with Bernard E . Harcourt , New York : Columbia University Press , 2019 . - Deepening Divides . How Territorial Borders and Social Boundaries Delineate our World , London : Pluto Press , 2019 . External links . - Interview in “La Suite dans les Idées” by Sylvain Bourmeau - Inaugural lecture “Critique of Humanitarianism” at the Institute for Advanced Study - Keynote lecture “The Body and the State” at the New School for Social Research - Presentation of scientific contribution to the field of medical anthropology