I am an assistant professor of sociology (UD) at the University of Amsterdam. From 2003 to 2006 I was a visiting lecturer at the University of Chicago, and from 2006 to 2008 a lecturer at the Université Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne.

My research has dealt with citizenship, migration, employment, labor, gender, sexuality, and inequality, mainly in France and the United States. Following my ethnography of day labor agency work and social movements in the Chicago region, I completed a collective study exploring the labor-market experience and following the union-supported mobilization of undocumented immigrant workers in France, together with Pierre Barron, Anne Bory, Nicolas Jounin and Lucie Tourette. With Nicolas Jounin, I have been carrying out comparative analysis on the implications of temporary staffing for migrant employment precarity in Paris and Chicago. With Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas, I have been developing a theoretical framework for the moral economy of migrant illegality across several key countries.

I continue to explore the relationship between precarious work, the welfare state, and civic inequality in Europe. In the past years, I have engaged in two other ongoing collaborative projects, with Bruno Cousin on the symbolic economy of social capital and the sociology of global elites in Europe and the Caribbean, and with Olga Sezneva on the critical history of the commodity form, focusing on the economics of cultural, virtual and agricultural products.

Throughout the last decade, I maintained a continuous interest in gender and sexuality studies, publishing broad syntheses with Laure Bereni, Alex Jaunait, Anne Revillard, and Arnaud Lerch. Most recently, I have begun new empirical research comparing the migratory dynamics, conjugal existence, and legal hurdles faced by same-sex transnational, migrant and binational couples and families in EU countries and US states that passed marriage equality.

Short CV

• PhD 2007 . Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) / Ecole normale supérieure (ENS). EHESS Prize for best dissertation, 2008 .
• MA 2003. DEA of social sciences, ENS/EHESS . 
• 2002: French Agrégation in social and economic sciences. 
• 2000-2001: Visiting graduate student, Department of sociology, University of California-Berkeley. 
• 2001: B.A. Sociology Université Paris 5 Descartes. 
• 1999-2003: Ecole normale supérieure (ENS). 
• Researcher at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR). 
• 2010-2013: Director of the Amsterdam Research Center for Gender and Sexuality (ARC-GS / AISSR). 
• Co-Chair of the 2013 Program Committee, Council for European Studies. 
• Coordinator, Migration and Ethnic Studies program (MES), Amsterdam Graduate School of Social Sciences (GSSS). 
• Academic advisor, Erasmus Mundus MISOCO program. 
• Member of the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES / AISSR) and the Amsterdam Center for Urban Studies (ACUS/AISSR). 
• Associate Researcher at the Institut Interdisciplinaire sur les Enjeux Sociaux (IRIS), EHESS, Paris. 
• Associate Researcher with the Institut Européen du Salariat, Paris.

Selected publications

La grève des sans-papiers Pierre Barron, Anne Bory, Sébastien Chauvin, Nicolas Jounin, Lucie Tourette, On bosse ici, on reste ici ! La grève des sans-papiers : une aventure inédite . Paris: La Découverte, 2011.

Les agences de la précarité Sébastien Chauvin, Les agences de la précarité. Journaliers à Chicago. Paris: Le Seuil, 2010. Le Monde-Sciences Po-Syntec Prize for best Human Resourcebook, 2011.

• Le Monde Prize

• Publisher website

Introduction aux études sur le genre (2nd aumented edition, 2012)

Introduction aux gender studies Laure Bereni, Sébastien Chauvin,Alexandre Jaunait,Anne Revillard, Brussels: De Boeck, 2008.

Sébastien Chauvin and Arnaud Lerch, Sociologie de l'homosexualité. Paris: La Découverte, 2013.

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