Born June 27, 1957, Pierre Antoine Fabre was a pupil of Michel de Certeau and Louis Marin, a pupil of the Ecole Normale Superieure de Saint-Cloud. He is Director of Studies at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences. He led the Center for European Religious Anthropology from 2005 to 2014. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Hastec Laboratory of Excellence. He founded in 2015 and chairs with José Eduardo Franco the International Society of Jesuit Studies. He is the editor of the journal Archives of Social Science of Religions and member of the Editorial Board of the journal Cristianesimo nella storia (Brescia, Italy) and of the Revista de Historia (Santiago, Chile).