Éric Fassin is a professor in the departments of Political Science and Gender Studies at the Université Paris-8 Vincennes - Saint-Denis, and researcher at the Laboratoire d'études de genre et de sexualité (CNRS). A sociologist committed to the public sphere, he works on the polarization of sexual and racial issues in France and the United States, on immigration policies in Europe, and on the notions of the left and democracy.