Michèle Lamont
Professor of Sociology
Recent Media Articles
Reviews
How Professors Think:
September 2009. Review by James O'Donnell (Provost, Georgetown University). Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
September 18, 2009. "Great Grants" by Adam Kuper. Times Literary Supplement.
August 4, 2009. "Peering Behind the Curtain of Peer Review" by Peggy Berkowitz. University Affairs.
August 3, 2009. "Rate Your Professors" by Amanda Claybaugh. n+1 Magazine.
March 4, 2009. "The 'Black Box' of Peer Review" by Scott Jaschik. Inside Higher Ed.
Articles Authored by Michèle Lamont
2010 Response to symposium around “How Professors Think”: Inside the Sausage Factory. Sociologica.
2010 "Quality Education and Research is Guaranteed Peer-to-Peer" Q & A, No. 2.
2009, "The wear and tear of our daily lives." (with Peter A. Hall). The Globe and Mail.
2009, "Les conditions de l’évaluation universitaire: Quelques réflexions à partir du cas américain" (with Bruno Cousin). Article for Mouvements, posted May 18, 2009.
2009, "A Fairness Doctrine For Academia". Article for The Huffington Post, posted May 8, 2009.
2009, "Opening the Black Box of Peer Review". Article for The Huffington Post, posted April 30, 2009.
2009, "Diversity and Excellence in Higher Education: not Alternatives but Additives". Article for The Huffington Post, posted April 27, 2009.
2009, "Re-examing the funding of academia through Obama's Recovery Act". Article for Daily Kos, posted March 26, 2009.
2007, talk at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (Harvard University), entitled "Successful Societies."
Spring 2007. "What makes a society succeed?" An adaptation of the introduction to the book Successful Societies: Institutions, Cultural Repertoires and Health, edited by Peter A. Hall and Michele Lamont, the directors of the Successful Societies program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Reach magazine.
2006, "Le mal americain" (with Eloi Laurent). Commentary in Liberation.fr, posted July 6, 2006.
2006, "France shows its true colors" (with Eloi Laurent). Op-ed in The Boston Globe, June 3, 2006 p. A-11. Reprinted in the International Herald Tribune, June 6, 2006.
Interviews
March 29, 2011: "La mentalité des Américains et des Français à la loupe" By Christelle Gérand. France Amérique.
October 15, 2009: "What makes a successful society?" By Amy Lavoie. Harvard Gazette.
April 3, 2009: Reviewing the Reviewers: A Q&A With Michèle Lamont. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
March 30, 2009: Michèle Lamont : "L'expertise des chercheurs doit être au centre du dispositif d'évaluation." nonfiction.fr : Le quotidien des livres et des idées.
June 2007. Rehabilitating the Importance of the Non-cognitive: An Interview with Michèle Lamont. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society (Springer Netherlands).
Podcasts
June 18, 2010: Reconsidering Culture and Poverty? The American Academy of Political and Social Science Congressional Policy Briefing.
November 30, 2009: What Makes a Society Succeed? Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
October 22, 2009: CIFAR: Successful Societies - How Insitutions and Culture Affect Health (Munk Center, University of Toronto).
From Harvard University Press: Michèle Lamont is the author of How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment.
May 14, 2009: Interview with Michèle Lamont on Academic Evolution (www.academicevolution.com).
April 8, 2009: A Conversation about Michele Lamont’s book “How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment” (Center for European Studies, Harvard University).
March 31, 2009: Michèle Lamont discusses her new book, "How Professors Think." with the National Science Foundation.
News
June 2010: "Reconsidering Culture and Poverty." National Poverty Center Policy Brief #21.
5/1/10: Harvard GSAS Bulletin: Mentoring Matters
3/31/09: Harvard University Press: Cream Rising: How Academics Determine Who Is Tops
3/31/09: National Science Foundation: "How Professors Think": New book explores decision making inside the guarded world of peer review (March 31, 2009).
Contact
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