Rick Fantasia is a

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in the

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in the United States and Director of its Kahn Liberal Arts Institute. He frequently conducts research in

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, and his research interests include the interaction between labor and culture in the

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and France. He was particularly influenced by the French sociologist

Pierre Bourdieu Pierre Bourdieu (; 1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist and public intellectual. Bourdieu's contributions to the sociology of education, the theory of sociology, and sociology of aesthetics have achieved wide influence i ...

, and is the former Director of the Louise W. and Edmund J. Kahn Liberal Arts Institute. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Publications

*''Cultures of Solidarity''. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1988 *(co authored with

Maurice Isserman Maurice Isserman (born 1951), formerly William R. Kenan and the James L. Ferguson chairs, is a long-time Professor of History at Hamilton College and important contributor to the "new history of American communism" that reinterpreted the role of ...

) ''Homelessness: A Sourcebook''. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1994) *(co-editored with Rhonda F. Levine and Scott G. McNall). ''Bringing Class Back In: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives'', Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991 *(co-authored with

Kim Voss Kim Voss (born 1952) is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley whose main field of research is social movements and the American labor movement. Education and career Voss received her bachelor's degree from Catawba C ...

) ''Hard Work: Remaking the American Labor Movement''. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2004. Published in France as ''Des Syndicats Domestiqués: Répression patronale et résistance syndicale aux États-Unis''. Paris: Editions Raisons d’Agir, 2003. *''French Gastronomy and the Magic of Americanism. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018. ''French edition forthcoming from ''Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2021''.

References

External links

Rick Fantasia, Professor & Study Abroad Adviser
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