Michèle Lamont
Professor of Sociology
How Professors Think:
Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment
This book opens up the black box of peer review to offer a unique peek into what happens behind the door of secretive deliberative chambers....
NEW! How Professors Think will be published in Spanish by Publicaciones de la Universidad de Valencia.
Reviews
August 4, 2009. "Peering Behind the Curtain of Peer Review" by Peggy Berkowitz. University Affairs.
2009. Michele Lamont Reveals How Professors Think—and Why? Bostonist, posted May 5, 2009.
2009. "The 'Black Box' of Peer Review" by Scott Jaschik. Inside Higher Ed, posted March 4, 2009.
Articles
2009. Les conditions de l’évaluation universitaire: Quelques réflexions à partir du cas américain (with Bruno Cousin). Mouvements, May 18, 2009.
2009. A Fairness Doctrine For Academia. The Huffington Post, posted May 8, 2009.
2009. Opening the Black Box of Peer Review. The Huffington Post, posted April 30, 2009.
2009. Diversity and Excellence in Higher Education: not Alternatives but Additives. The Huffington Post, posted April 27, 2009.
2009, Re-examing the funding of academia through Obama's Recovery Act. Daily Kos, posted March 26, 2009.
Interviews
2009. Reviewing the Reviewers: A Q&A With Michèle Lamont. The Chronicle of Higher Education, posted April 3, 2009.
2009. Michèle Lamont : "L'expertise des chercheurs doit être au centre du dispositif d'évaluation." nonfiction.fr : Le quotidien des livres et des idées, posted March 30, 2009.
Podcasts
2009. Michèle Lamont is the author of How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment. Harvard University Press.
2009. Interview with Michèle Lamont. Academic Evolution posted May 14, 2009.
2009. A Conversation about Michele Lamont’s book “How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment.” Center for European Studies, Harvard University, posted April 8, 2009.
2009. Michèle Lamont discusses her new book, "How Professors Think." National Science Foundation, posted March 31, 2009.
Contact
617-496-0645
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617-496-5794 (FAX)
510 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138