Daniel Dayan

Daniel Dayan is a French social scientist born in 1943. A fellow of the Marcel Mauss Institute at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and of the Levinas European Institute, Dayan has been Director of Research in Sociology, at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, professor of Media Theory at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) Paris and a Hans Speier Visiting Professor at the New school for Social Research. Dayan holds degrees in anthropology, comparative literature, semiotics and film studies from the Sorbonne, Stanford University and L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales where he received a Ph.D in Aesthetics under the direction of Roland Barthes. Dayan has been a visiting lecturer and visiting professor in Media Sociology and Film Theory at numerous European and American universities including Paris II-Institut Français de Presse; Paris III-Sorbon...