Loïc Wacquant
Loïc Wacquant is a prominent sociologist whose work spans urban sociology, poverty, racial inequality, social theory, and ethnography.
He is a Professor of Sociology and Research Associate at the Earl Warren Legal Institute, University of California, Berkeley, where he is affiliated with the Program in Medical Anthropology and the Center for Urban Ethnography.
He also serves as a researcher at the Centre de sociologie européenne in Paris.
A former Harvard Society of Fellows member and MacArthur Prize Fellow, Wacquant has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Fletcher Foundation Fellowship and the Lewis Coser Award from the American Sociological Association.
