Hervé Marchal, a lecturer in sociology at the Université de Lorraine in Nancy, is a member of the research unit 2L2S (Laboratoire lorrain de sciences sociales – Lorraine Laboratory for the Social Sciences), where he has conducted numerous studies on subjects such as the city, the identity of city-dwellers and segregation processes.
His publications include La Diversité : impératif ou idéal ? (Ellipses, 2010), L’Identité en question (Ellipses, 2006) and, with Jean-Marc Stébé, La Ville. Territoires, logiques et défis (Ellipses, 2008) and Traité sur la ville (Presses universitaires de France, 2009).