Rick Fantasia is the “Barbara Richmond 1940 Professor in the Social Sciences” and Professor of Sociology
Professor at
Smith College in the United States and Director of its Kahn Liberal Arts Institute.[1]
He frequently conducts research in
France, and his research interests include the interaction between labor and culture in the
United States and France. He was particularly influenced by the French sociologist
Pierre Bourdieu, 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.[1]
Publications
Cultures of Solidarity. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1988[2]
(co authored with
Maurice Isserman) 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) 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.[1]