I am assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Paris at Saint-Denis (Université Paris 8). Beginning in september 2011, I will be on leave for research at the CRESPPA a joint research institute (CNRS and Paris 8). I am currently studying changes of first-names in France (both the legal procedure for changing first-names and the first-names themselves). Most of my work is in French, including my books, A French history of sex-shops (2007), Contemporary sociological theories (textbook, with Céline Béraud, 2008) and A Sociology of first names (2011), but you can find here three articles in English :
- Consuming sex: socio-legal shifts in the space and place of sex-shops (with Phil Hubbard), Journal of Law and Society, 2010, 37(1), Pages 189 – 209 [Special Issue: Regulating Sex/Work: From Crime Control to Neo-liberalism?]
- Do the Rite Thing: Religious Civil Unions in Vermont, Social Compass, 52(2), 2005, 225-239
- The Geography of Civil Unions in Vermont, Journal of Lesbian Studies, 2005, 9(1/2), pp.185-195
and a resume [en].
