Alexandre Duchêne's research is situated at the interface between linguistics and social science and is concerned with the role of language in the production of differences and social inequalities. He is a member of the board of directors of the Institute of Multilingualism, Head of the research group Language and social inequalities at UNIFR and a member of the Research unit IDIS at HEPFR. He was invited professor at ENS Lyon (France), the University of Jyväskylä (Finland), the Université Laval (Canada) and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (USA). He is the General Editor of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language and a member of numerous editorial boards of international journals. Together with Deborah Cameron, he co-edits the Routledge series The Politics of Language.