How Professors Think

Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment

Michèle Lamont

    • Contents
    1. Opening the Black Box of Peer Review
    2. How Panels Work
    3. On Disciplinary Cultures
    4. Pragmatic Fairness: Customary Rules of Deliberation
    5. Recognizing Various Kinds of Excellence
    6. Considering Interdisciplinarity and Diversity
    7. Implications in the United States and Abroad
    • Appendix: Methods and Data Analysis
    • Notes
    • References
    • Acknowledgments
    • Index
  • Cover: How Professors Think
  • A photo of the author

Michèle Lamont is Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies, and Senior Adviser on Faculty Development and Diversity, Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.