Loïc Wacquant
| Loïc Wacquant | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Native name | Loïc J.D. Wacquant |
| Born | 1960 |
| Nationality | French |
| Website | loicwacquant |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago (Ph.D., 1994) |
| Thesis title | Urban outcasts: Color, class, and place in two advanced societies |
| Thesis year | 1994 |
| Doctoral advisor | William Julius Wilson, George Steinmetz, Moishe Postone |
| Influences | Pierre Bourdieu |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Sociologist |
| Sub discipline | Urban sociology |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Main interests | Race, Incarceration, Ghettos |
Loïc Wacquant (French: [lo'ik va'kɑn]; born 1960) is a sociologist, specializing in urban sociology, urban poverty, racial inequality, the body, social theory and ethnography.
Wacquant is currently a Professor of Sociology and Research Associate at the Earl Warren Legal Institute, University of California, Berkeley, where he is also affiliated with the Program in Medical Anthropology and the Center for Urban Ethnography, and Researcher at the 'Centre de sociologie européenne' in Paris. He has been a member of the Harvard Society of Fellows, a MacArthur Prize Fellow, and has won numerous grants including the Fletcher Foundation Fellowship and the Lewis Coser Award of the American Sociological Association.
Wacquant was born and grew up in Montpellier in the Southern France, and he received his training in economics and sociology in France and the United States. He was a student and close collaborator of Pierre Bourdieu. He also worked closely with William Julius Wilson at the University of Chicago, where he received his PhD in sociology 1994. Wacquant has published more than a hundred articles in journals of sociology, anthropology, urban studies, social theory and philosophy. He is also co-founder and editor of the interdisciplinary journal Ethnography as well as a collaborator of Le Monde Diplomatique. His primary research has been conducted in the ghettos of South Chicago, in the Paris banlieue, and in jails of the United States and Brazil.
...
Wikipedia