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MICHÈLE LAMONT
Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and African and
African-American Studies, Harvard University
Project Co-director, Successful Societies Program (with Peter A. Hall, Harvard University),
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Personal: Citizenship: Canadian and American
Address: Department of Sociology
Harvard University
William James Hall
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: (617) 496-0645 (office)
Fax: (617) 496-5794
E-mail: mlamont@wjh.harvard.edu
Education: PhD Sociology, Université de Paris. 1983.
DEA Sociology, Université de Paris. 1979.
MA Political Science, Ottawa University. 1979.
BA Political Science, Ottawa University. 1978.
Areas of Research
Academic Appointments
Cultural Sociology Sociology of Knowledge
Inequality Sociological Theory
Race and Immigration Higher Education
Comparative Sociology Qualitative Methods
2009-2010 Senior Advisor on Faculty Development and Diversity, Faculty of Arts and
Sciences, Harvard University.
2006- Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Harvard University.
2005- Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.
2004- Director, European Inequality Network, Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality
and Social Policy, Kennedy School of Government.
2003- Professor, Department of Sociology and Faculty Associate, Center for European
Studies, Harvard University.
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2002- Fellow and Program Director, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
2000-2003 Professor, Department of Sociology, Princeton University.
1993-2000 Associate Professor with tenure, Department of Sociology, Princeton University.
1987-1993 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Princeton University.
1985-1987 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Texas-Austin.
1983-1985 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, Stanford University.
Visiting Positions
July 2011 Invited Professor, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB),
Social Science Research Center, Berlin
March 2011 Directeur d'études invité, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris
2010-2011 Visiting Professor, Centre d‟études européennes, Sciences Po, Paris.
June 2009 Directeur d'études invité, Université de Paris 10- Nanterre, ISP Nanterre
Cachan.
June 2007 Directeur d'études invité, Université de Paris 8- Vincennes-Saint-Denis,
Department of Political Science.
June 2006 Directeur d'études invité, Sciences Po, Paris.
July 2000 Invited Lecturer, Oslo Summer School in Comparative Social Science Studies.
January 1998 Invited Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv
University.
January 1995 Directeur d'études invité, Institut d'études comparées, Université de Paris IV-
Nanterre.
January 1994 Directeur d'études invité, Groupe de sociologie politique et morale, Ecole des h
autes études en sciences sociales.
Spring 1993 Scholar-in-Residence, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New
York Public Library.
Fall 1992 Visiting Scholar, Institute for French Studies, New York University.
Summer 1987 Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies, Harvard University.
Awards, Fellowships and Honorary Positions:
Master Mentor, Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity,
Harvard University, 2010.
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Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award, Graduate Students Association, Harvard
University, 2010.
Matina Horner Distinguished Visiting Professorship, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study,
2006-2007.
Chair, Council for European Studies, 2006-2009.
Winner, “The Next Big Question Competition.” Canadian Institute for Advanced Studies,
Ottawa, May 2009.
Thomas Znaniecki Distinguished Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, 2008.
Robin M. Williams Jr. Lecturer, Eastern Sociological Society, 2006.
Alpha Kappa Delta Distinguished Lecturer, 2006.
Elected Member, Council of the American Sociological Association, 2005-2008.
Member, National Research Council Committee on Assessing Behavioral and Social Science
Research on Aging, 2004-2006.
Chair, Theory Section, American Sociological Association, 2003-2004.
Fellow and Project Co-director, "Successful Societies" Program, Canadian Institute for
Advanced Research, 2002.
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, 2002-2003, with the support of the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (grant no. 29800639).
C. Wright Mills Prize of the Society for the Study of Social Problems for The Dignity of
Working Men, 2001.
Member of Steering Committee, Council for European Studies, 1996-2001.
The Dignity of Working Men in list of 2000 Noteworthy Books In Industrial Relations and
Labor Economics of the Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University.
Mattei Dogan Award for the Best Comparativist Book in 2001 from the Society for
Comparative Research for The Dignity of Working Men.
Elected Member, Society for Comparative Research, 1998.
Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1996-1997.
Visiting Scholar, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, 1997.
Fellow, Russell Sage Foundation, Fall 1996.
Elected member, Sociological Research Association, 1996.
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Member, Woodrow Wilson Society of Fellows, 1996-2002.
Jean Monnet Fellow, European University Institute, 1996-97 (declined).
Chair, Culture Section, American Sociological Association, 1994-95.
Le Monde Choice List, La morale et l'argent. La cultures des cadres en France et aux Etats-
Unis, 1995.
C. Wright Mills Prize Finalist, Money, Morals, and Manners: The Culture of the French and
the American Upper-Middle Class, 1993.
Fellow, German Marshall Funds of the United States, 1992-1993.
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Québec Government, 1982-1984.
Boursier du Gouvernement français, 1978-1982.
Ph.D. Fellowship, Québec Government, 1980-1982.
Scientific Board Membership (last five years)
Member, Haut Conseil de la science et de technologie, French Government (2010-).
Member, Advisory Board, Fellowship Program, Open Society Institute (2009-).
Member, Advisory Board, Réseau français d‟Instituts d‟études avancées (2009-).
Member, International Scientific Advisory Board, Sciences Po, Paris (2008-).
External Grants
“Qualitative Data Repository.” National Science Foundation, with Colin Elman, Diana
Kapiszewski, Howard Turtle, and Lisa Wedeen. Syracuse University ($599,822), 2012-2014.
“Doctoral Dissertation Research: Low Income Youth and Perceptions of Mortality.” National
Science Foundation, with Nathan Fosse, Harvard University ($8,365), 2010-2011.
“Destigmatization Strategies among Ethnic Groups in Israel.” United States - Israel Binational
Science Foundation, with Nissim Mizrachi and Hanna Herzog ($52,000), 2009-2011.
“Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Multilevel Study of Symbolic Boundaries towards
Muslims, 2007-2008.” National Science Foundation, with Christopher Bail, Harvard University
($10,000), 2009-2010.
“Fostering Successful Interdisciplinarity through Shared Cognitive Platforms.” Canadian
Institute for Advanced Research ($250,000), 2007-2009.
“Exploring Culture and Poverty.” Ford Foundation, with David Harding and Mario Luis Small
($25,000), 2008.
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“Doctoral Dissertation Research: Hiring and Inequality in High Prestige Professions.” National
Science Foundation, with Lauren Rivera, Harvard University ($7,500), 2007-2009.
“African-American Responses to Racism and Discrimination.” National Science Foundation
($209,985), 2007-2010.
“Knowledge Making, Use, and Evaluation in the Social Sciences.” Russell Sage Foundation,
with Charles Camic and Neil Gross ($35,000), 2006-2007.
“Workshop on Interdisciplinary Standards for Systematic Qualitative Analysis.” National
Science Foundation ($52,122), 2005-2006.
"The Social Study of the Social Sciences and the Humanities." Radcliffe Institute for Advanced
Study, exploratory seminar with Charles Camic and Neil Gross ($12,000), 2005.
"Negotiating Social Identities in an Elite Independent High School." National Science
Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Award, with Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández,
Harvard University ($7,490), 2004-2005.
"Architects and the Puzzle of State Socialist Modernization: Architectural Discourse in
Hungary and East Germany after the Second World War." National Science Foundation
Doctoral Dissertation Research Award with Virag Molnar, Princeton University. ($4,500).
2002-2003.
"Explaining Changes in Criminal Justice and Social Welfare Policies in the American States,
1967-1985." National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Award with Joshua
Guetzkow, Princeton University ($7,500), 2002-2003.
"Categories and Criteria of Evaluation of Research Proposals in the Social Sciences and the
Humanities." National Science Foundation ($114,575), 2001-2003.
"Defining Sexual Harassment in France and the United States." National Science Foundation,
Dissertation improvement grant with Abigail Cope Saguy ($3,400), 1998-1999.
"Race, Class, and Culture Conference." Russell Sage Foundation ($25,000), Fall 1996.
"The Princeton-Paris Project on Evaluative Models." National Science Foundation and the
Centre national de recherche scientifique (jointly with Groupe de sociologie politique et
morale, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris), ($20,000), 1995-1998.
"The Best and the Brightest: Definitions of Personal and Cultural Excellence among the 1991
Presidential Scholars." Spencer Foundation ($12,000), 1994-1996.
"Cultural Representation of Paternity Among Poor, Unmarried Parents." National Science
Foundation. Dissertation improvement grant with Maureen Waller. ($7,500). 1994-1996.
"Principles of Evaluation in Comparative Perspective." Council for European Studies ($2,500),
1994.
"Male Working Class Culture in France and America." National Science Foundation
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($104,500), 1992-95.
"Male Working Class Culture in France and America." American Philosophical Society Travel
grant, Summer 1992 (declined).
"The Culture of the American Upper-Middle Class." Lilly Endowment ($30,000), 1988-1989.
"Upper-Middle Class Culture in Indianapolis." National Science Foundation-American
Sociological Association. "Problems in the discipline grant" ($3,000), Fall 1987.
"Interviewing Parisian Intellectuals." Commission franco-américaine d'échanges universitaires,
French Government ($2,500). Winter 1987.
"The Development of the Social Science and the Growth of the State in Québec." Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada ($2,000), 1984-1985.
Internal Grants at Harvard
“Qualitative Social Science @ Harvard” (with Rakesh Khurana), Interschool Faculty Project
funded by the Provost Office. ($12,000), 2011-2012.
“Education in a New Society: The Growing Interpenetration of Education in Modern Life”
(with Jal Mehta), Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Exploratory Seminar ($14,995),
2011-2012.
“Course on Qualitative Social Science Research for Harvard Undergraduates and Masters
Students” (with Rakesh Khurana and Natasha Warikoo), President‟s Innovations Fund for
Faculty (PJIFF). ($15,000), 2010-2011.
“A Comparative Study of Responses to Discrimination by Members of Stigmatized Groups.”
Weatherhead Initiative in International Affairs ($170,000), 2007-2011.
“Real Estate Agents as Cultural Brokers.” Real Estate Academic Initiative at the Graduate
School of Design, with Lauren Rivera ($18,975), 2007-2008.
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Faculty Grant ($5,000), 2006-2007.
"Ethno-racism and the Transformation of Collective Identity." Conference grant, Weatherhead
Center for International Affairs ($20,000), January 2005.
"Bridging Boundaries: Destigmatization Strategies of African-Americans and Black
Brazilians." Large grant for faculty research project, Weatherhead Center for International
Affairs. ($80,000), 2005-2008.
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Publications
Books
2009 How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press. Paperback 2010.
Korean translation. Seoul, South Korea: Korea National Open University. 2011
Chinese translation. Beijing, China: Higher Education Press. With original Preface.
2011.
Spanish translation forthcoming. Valencia, Spain: Publicaciones de la Universidad de
Valencia.
2000 The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and
Immigration. Cambridge: Harvard University Press and New York: Russell Sage
Foundation. Paperback 2002.
French translation, La dignité des travailleurs. Paris: Presses de Science Po. 2002.
1992 Money, Morals and Manners: The Culture of the French and the American Upper-
Middle Class. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (Morality and Society series, ed.
by Alan Wolfe). (2nd edition: 1999).
Edited Collections
French translation, La morale et l'argent: La culture des cadres en France et aux Etatsunis.
Paris: A.M. Metailié, (Leçons de choses series, ed. by Luc Boltanski). 1995.
Sections reprinted in Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life--Readings,
edited by David M. Newman. Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge Press, 1985, pp. 199-214.
"Symbolic Boundaries and Status," in Cultural Sociology, edited by Lyn Spillman,
Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell, 2002, pp. 98-119.
Interviews archived at the Murray Research Center, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced
Studies, Summer 2003.
Forthcoming “Social Resilience In The Neo-Liberal Age.” (co-edited with Peter A. Hall).
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2012 “Responses to Discrimination and Racism by Members of Stigmatized Groups:
Brazil, Canada, France, Israel, South Africa, Sweden, and the United States.”
Special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies (co-edited with Nissim Mizrachi)
(February 2012). Also published as Responses to Stigmatization in Comparative
Perspective. (co-edited with Nissim Mizrachi). New York and London: Routledge
(2012).
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2011 Social Knowledge in the Making (co-edited with Charles Camic and Neil Gross).
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2010
Reconsidering Culture and Poverty (co-edited with Mario Luis Small and David J.
Harding). Special issue of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and
Social Science 629 (May).
Portuguese translation, Reavaliando Culturea E Pobreza, Sociolgia & Anthropolgia.
Novembro de 2011.
2010 “The Future of France” (co-edited with Eloi Laurent). Dossier in French Politics,
Culture & Society 28 (3): 66-152.
2009 Successful Societies: How Institutions and Culture Matter for Health (co-edited
with Peter A. Hall). New York: Cambridge University Press.
2008 Workshop on The Evaluation of Systematic Qualitative Research in the Social
Sciences (co-edited with Patricia White). Washington, DC: National Science
Foundation.
2000 Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology: Repertoires of Evaluation in France
and the United States (co-edited with Laurent Thévenot). London: Cambridge
University Press and Paris: Presses de la Maison des sciences de l'homme.
Chinese translation, Jianqiao Xueshu Qianyan. Beijing: Zhonghua Book Company,
2005.
1999 The Cultural Territories of Race: Black and White Boundaries. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press and New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
1992 Cultivating Differences: Symbolic Boundaries and the Making of Inequality (coedited
with Marcel Fournier). Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2nd edition:
1994).
1989 Culture as Capital (co-edited with Marcel Fournier). Special issue of Sociologie et
Sociétés, 19 (4).
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Forthcoming “Toward a Comparative Sociology of Valuation and Evaluation.” Annual Review of
Sociology.
2012 “Varieties of Responses to Stigmatization: Macro, Meso, and Micro Dimensions.”
(with Jessica S. Welburn and Crystal M. Fleming). Du Bois Review: Social Science
Research on Race. 9(1): 43-49.
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2012 “How Has Bourdieu Been Good to Think With? The Case of the United States”.
Sociological Forum 27(1): 228-237.
2012 “Generational Differences in Accounts of the Development of American Cultural
Sociology: Let me Count the Ways: Response to Lizardo and Mische‟s Comment.”
Sociological Forum.
2012 “Introduction: Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things: Responses to
Stigmatization in Comparative Perspective.” (with Nissim Mizrachi). Ethnic and
Racial Studies 35(3): 365-381.
2012 “African Americans Respond to Stigmatization: The Meanings and Salience of
Confronting, Deflecting Conflict, Educating the Ignorant and „Managing The
Self‟.” (with Crystal Fleming and Jessica Welburn). Ethnic and Racial Studies
35(3): 400-417.
2011 “European Workers: Meaning-Making Beings.” (with Caitlin Daniel and Eleni
Arzoglou). Special issue of Research in the Sociology of Work on European
Workers Compared 22: 287-312. Edited by David Brady.
2010 “Introduction: Assessing France as a Model of Societal Success." (with Eloi
Laurent) French Politics, Culture & Society 28 (3): 66-73.
2010 “Cultural Diversity and Anti-Poverty Policy.” (with Mario Luis Small).
International Social Science Journal. 61 (199): 169-180.
Significantly revised version of "Cultural Diversity and Poverty Eradication." (with
Mario Luis Small) Background Paper prepared for World Report on Cultural
Diversity, UNESCO, 2007.
2010 “Introduction: Reconsidering Culture and Poverty” (with Mario Luis Small and
David Harding.) Special issue on Reconsidering Culture and Poverty (with Mario
Luis Small and David J. Harding). Annals of the American Academy of Political
and Social Science. 629: 6-27.
2009 “Les conditions de l‟évaluation universitaire: Quelques réflexions à partir du cas
américain.“ (with Bruno Cousin). Revue Mouvements. 60: 113-117.
Also posted online at http://www.mouvements.info/spip.php?article409. May 18,
2009.
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2009 “Fairness as Appropriateness: Negotiating Epistemological Differences in
bookseview” (with Grégoire Mallard and Joshua Guetzkow). Science, Technology
and Human Values. 34 (5): 573-606. URL:
http://sth.sagepub.com/content/early/2009/02/10/0162243908329381.full.pdf+html
2008 "Complementary Rather than Contradictory: Diversity and Excellence in Peer
Review and Admissions in American Higher Education" (with Graziella Moraes da
Silva). 21st Century Society: Journal of the Academy of Social Science. 4 (1): 1-15.
2007 “European Studies in the United States: Current Challenges and Prospects for the
Future.” The Tocqueville Review. XXXIX (1): 165-174.
2006 “Boundary Processes: Recent Theoretical Developments and New Contributions”
(with Mark Pachucki and Sabrina Pendergrass). Poetics. 35 (6): 331-351.
2006 “Beyond Blind Faith: Overcoming the Obstacles to Interdisciplinary Evaluation”
(with Grégoire Mallard and Joshua Guetzkow). Research Evaluation. 15 (1): 43-57.
Reprinted in 2012 in Peer Review, Scientific Integrity, and the Governance of
Science, edited by Bob Frodeman, Britt Holbrook, Carl Mitcham. Beijin: Remnin
Press
2005 "Sur les frontières de la reconnaissance. Les catégories internes et externes de
l'identité collective" (with Christopher Bail). Revue européenne des migrations
internationales. 21 (2): 6190.
2004 "Everyday Anti-Racism: Competence and Religion in the Cultural Repertoire of the
African American Elite" (with Crystal Fleming). Du Bois Review. 2 (1): 29-43.
2004 "What is Originality in the Social Sciences and the Humanities?" (with Joshua
Guetzkow and Grégoire Mallard). American Sociological Review. 69 (2): 190-212.
2003 "Who Counts as 'Them': Racism and Virtue in the United States and France."
Contexts. 2 (4): 3641.
2002 "From Character to Intellect: Changing Conceptions of Merit in the Social Sciences
and the Humanities, 1951-1971" (with Angela Tsay, Andrew Abbott, and Joshua
Guetzkow). Poetics. 31 (1): 23-17.
2002 "The Study of Boundaries Across the Social Sciences" (with Virag Molnar). Annual
Review of Sociology. 28: 167-195.
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2002 "Ordinary Cosmopolitanisms: Strategies for Bridging Racial Boundaries among
Working Class Men.” (with Sada Aksartova). Theory, Culture and Society. 19 (4):
1-25.
Reprinted in Cosmopolitanism: Critical Concepts in Sociology, edited by Gerard
Delanty and David Inglis. New York: Routledge. 2002
German Translation in. Ethnowissen: Soziologische Beiträge zu ethnischer
Differenzierung und Migration, edited by Dariuš Zifonun and Marion Müller.
Wiesbaden, Germany: VS Verag. 2010.
2001 "North African Immigrants Respond to French Racism: Demonstrating Equivalence
through Universalism" (with Ann Morning and Margarita Mooney). Ethnic and
Racial Studies. 25 (3): 390-414.
2001 "How Blacks Use Consumption to Shape their Collective Identity: Evidence from
African-American Marketing Specialists" (with Virág Molnár). Journal of
Consumer Culture. 1 (1): 31-45.
Reprinted in Consumption, edited by Alan Warde. SAGE Publications.
Forthcoming in August, 2010.
2001 "Immigration and the Salience of Racial Boundaries among French Workers."
French Politics, Culture, and Society. 19 (1): 1-21.
Reprinted in Race in France: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of
Difference, edited by Herrick Chapman and Laura L. Frader. New York and
Oxford: Berghahn Books. Pp. 141-161. 2004.
2000 "Symbolic Boundaries." International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral
Sciences, edited by Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes. London: Pergamon Press.
Pp. 15341-15347.
2000 "Comparing French and American Sociology." The Tocqueville Review. Special
20th anniversary issue on "Intellectual, Political, and Cultural relationships
Between France and the United States over the Last Twenty Years." 21 (1): 109-
122.
2000 "The Future of Cultural Sociology: Broadening our Agenda." Contemporary
Sociology, special millennium issue on "Sociology in the 21st Century." 29 (4):
602-607.
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2000 "The Best of the Brightest: Definitions of the Ideal Self among Prize-Winning
Students" (with Jason Kaufman and Michael Moody). Sociological Forum. 15 (2):
187-224.
1996 "Michael Schudson, Alan Wolfe, and Universal Morality." The Communication
Review. 4 (10): 121-128.
1996 "Cultural and Moral Boundaries in the United States: Structural Position,
Geographic Location, and Lifestyle Explanations" (with John Schmalzbauer,
Maureen Waller, and Daniel Weber). Poetics. 24 (1): 31-56.
1995 "The Nature of Virtue: Symbolic Boundaries in the French and American Upper-
Middle Class." (in German). Berliner Journal Für Soziologie. 6 (1): 15-32.
1989 "National Identity and National Boundary Patterns in France and the United
States." French Historical Studies. 19 (2): 349-365.
1988 "The Power-Culture Link in a Comparative Perspective." Comparative Social
Research. 11: 131-150.
1988 "Surveying the Continental Drift; The Diffusion of French Social and Literary
Theory in the United States" (with Marsha Witten). French Politics and Society. 6
(3): 17-23.
1988 "Cultural Capital: Allusions, Gaps and Glissandos in Recent Theoretical
Developments" (with Annette L. Lareau). Sociological Theory. 6 (2): 153-68.
1987 "From Paris to Stanford: A Sociological Reconversion from French to American
Sociology" (in French). Politix. (3-4): 22-29.
1987 "How to Become a Dominant French Philosopher: The Case of Jacques Derrida."
American Journal of Sociology. 93 (3): 584-622.
Reprinted in The New American Cultural Sociology, edited by Philip Smith.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 93-108, 1998.
Translated into Japanese, Seijo Communication Review. 9: 93-143, 1995.
1984 "Cultural Capital and the Liberal Political Attitudes of Professionals: Comment on
Brint." American Journal of Sociology. 92 (6): 1501-5.
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1983 "Social Movements in Interorganizational Context: The Case of Women's
Organizations." (in French). Politique. 5: 75-106.
1982 "The Ideological Crisis in the United States" (in French). Politique. 4: 5-26.
1982 "The Power of Intellectuals" (in French). Politique. 1: 19-46.
Chapters
Forthcoming “How National Contexts Enable and Constrain Social Resilience and Responses to
Stigmatization.” Social Resilience in the Neo-Liberal Age. Edited by Peter A. Hall
and Michèle Lamont. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Forthcoming “Introduction.” (with Peter A. Hall). Social Resilience in the Neo-Liberal Age.
Edited by Peter A. Hall and Michèle Lamont. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
2012 “A Conceptual Framework.” (with A. Wuermli, R. Silbereisen, M. Lundberg, J.
Behrman, & L. Aber) Children and Youth in Crisis: Protecting and Promoting
Human Development in Times of Economic Shocks, edited by A. Wuermli & M.
Lundberg. Washington, DC: The World Bank.
2011 “Introduction: The Study of Social Knowledge Making.” (with Charles Camic and
Neil Gross). Social Knowledge in the Making, edited by Charles Camic, Neil
Gross, and Michèle Lamont. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2011 “Comparing Customary Rules of Fairness: Evidence of Evaluative Practices in
Peer Review Panels.” (with Katri Huutoniemi). Social Knowledge in the Making
edited by Charles Camic, Neil Gross, and Michèle Lamont. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press.
2011 “Équité pragmatique: production du sacré en respectant les règles.” L’évaluation
de la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales, edited by Paul Servais. Louvainla-Neuve:
Acedemia-Bruylant: Pp. 213-230.
English translation, 2011. “Pragmatic Fairness: Production of the Sacred While
Observing the Rules” in Evaluation: New Balance of Power? IFQ-Working
Papers. Institut fur Forschungsinformation und Qualitatssicherung
2010 “Looking Back at Bourdieu.” Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu’s Legacy: Settling
Accounts and Developing Alternatives, edited by Elizabeth Silva and Alan Warde.
London: Routledge. Pp. 128-141
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2009 “Preface.” Injustice at Work, by François Dubet. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Books.
2009 "Race-bridging for Christ? Conservative Christians and Black-White Relations in
Community Life." (with Paul Lichterman and Prudence Carter). Evangelicals and
Democracy in America, edited by Steven Brint and Jean Schroedel. New York:
Russell Sage Foundation. Pp. 187-220.
2009 “Introduction.” (with Peter A. Hall). Successful Societies: How Institutions and
Culture Matter for Health, edited by Peter A. Hall and Michèle Lamont). New
York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 1-22.
2009 “Responses to Racism, Health, and Social Inclusion as A Dimension of Successful
Societies.” Successful Societies: How Institutions and Culture Matter for Health
(co-edited by Peter A. Hall and Michele Lamont). New York: Cambridge
University Press. Pp. 151-168.
2009 "Negotiating a Passage Between Disciplinary Borders: A Symposium." (with
Joshua Guetzkow). Social Science Library: Frontier Thinking in Sustainable
Development and Human Well-Being. Medford, MA: Global Development And
Environment Institute.
2009 "Critères d'évaluation et structures culturelles." Compétences critiques et sens de la
justice, edited by Marc Breviglieri, Claudette Lafaye, and Danny Trom. Paris:
Economica. Pp. 437-446.
2008 "Consumption." (with Virág Molnár). Encyclopedia of Racial and Ethnic Studies,
edited by Ernest Cashmore. London: Routledge. Pp. 89-93.
2008 “How Culture Matters: Enriching Our Understandings of Poverty.” (with Mario
Luis Small) The Colors of Poverty: Why Racial and Ethnic Disparities Persist,
edited by Ann Lin and David Harris. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Pp. 76-
102.
2006 "How French and American Workers Define Cultural Membership." Inequalities of
the World, edited by Goran Therborn. London: Verso. Pp. 93-118
2006 "Evaluating Creative Minds: The Assessment of Originality in Peer Review." (with
Marcel Fournier, Joshua Guetzkow, Grégoire Mallard, and Roxane Bernier).
Knowledge, Communication, and Creativity, edited by Arnaud Sales and Marcel
Fournier. London: Sage. Pp. 166-182.
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2005 "Communauté et exclusion: Le role de l'immigration, de la race, et de la pauvreté."
Les codes de la différence. Race, Origine, Religion. France, Allemagne, Etats-
Unis, edited by Riva Kastoryano. Paris: Les Presses de Science Po. Pp. 239-262.
2004 "The Evaluation of Scholarship Programs." The Lucky Few and the Worthy Many:
Competitive Scholarships and the World's Future Leaders, edited by Alice Stone
Ilchman, Warren F. Ilchman, and Mary Hale Tolar. Bloomington, IN: Indiana
University Press. Pp. 104-126.
2004 "A Life of Sad, but Justified Choices: Interviewing Across (too) Many Divides."
Researching Race and Racism, edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos.
London: Routledge. Pp. 162-171.
2002 "Working Men's Imagined Communities: The Boundaries of Race, Immigration,
and Poverty in France and the United States." The Postmodern Self: Imagining and
Belonging, edited by Ulf Hedetoft and Mette Hjort. Minneapolis, MN: University
of Minnesota Press. Pp. 178-197.
2002 "Social Categorization and Group Identification: How African Americans Shape
their Collective Identity Through Consumption" (with Virág Molnár).
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Demand and Its Role in Innovation, edited by
Kenneth Green, Andrew McMeekin, Mark Tomlinson, and Vivien Walsh.
Manchester: Manchester University Press. Pp. 88-111.
2001 "Culture and Identity." Handbook of Sociological Theory, edited by Jonathan H.
Turner. New York: Plenum. Pp. 171-185.
2000 "Introduction: Toward a Renewed Comparative Cultural Sociology" (with Laurent
Thévenot). Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology: Repertoires of Evaluation
in France and the United States, edited by Michèle Lamont and Laurent Thévenot.
London: Cambridge University Press and Paris: Presses de la Maison des sciences
de l'homme. Pp. 1-22.
2000 "The Rhetoric of Racism and Anti-Racism in France and the United States."
Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology: Repertoires of Evaluation in France
and the United States (edited by Michèle Lamont and Laurent Thévenot). London:
Cambridge University Press and Paris: Presses de la Maison des sciences de
l'homme. Pp. 25-55. .
2000 "Conclusion: Exploring the French and American Polity" (with Laurent Thévenot).
Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology: Repertoires of Evaluation in France
and the United States (co-edited by Michele Lamont and Laurent Thévenot).
London: Cambridge University Press and Paris: Presses de la Maison des sciences
de l'homme. Pp. 307-327.
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1999 "Introduction: Beyond Taking Culture Seriously." The Cultural Territories of
Race: Black and White Boundaries, edited by Michèle Lamont. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press and New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Pp. ix-xx.
1999 "Above 'People Above:' Status and Worth Among White and Black Workers." The
Cultural Territories of Race: Black and White Boundaries, edited by Michèle
Lamont. Chicago: University of Chicago Press and New York: Russell Sage
Foundation. Pp. 127-150.
1997 "The Meaning of Class and Race: French and American Workers Discuss
Differences." Reworking Class, edited by John Hall. Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press. Pp. 193-220.
1997 "Colliding Moralities Between White and Black Workers." Sociology to Cultural
Studies, edited by Elizabeth Long. New York: Blackwell, pp. 263-285. Boulder,
CO: Lynne Reiners Publisher,
1997 "The Frontiers of Our Dreams Are No Longer the Same: Cultural Dynamics of
Exclusion and Community in France, the United States, and Québec." Self-
Determination and Self-Administration, edited by Wolfgang Danspeckgruber with
Sir Arthur Watts. New York: Lynne Rienner Publishers. Pp. 199-220 (includes
reply by Robert Putnam, pp. 215-217).
1993 "Pride, Shame, Self-identity and Symbolic Boundaries" (in French). Structuration
du social et modernité avancée, edited by Michel Audet and Hamid Bouchikhi.
Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval. Pp. 437-442.
1991 "France: Alternative Locations for Public Debate," (with Jack Veugelers). Between
States and Markets: The Public Sphere in Advanced Industrial Societies, edited by
Robert Wuthnow. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Pp. 125-156.
1990 "Betwixt-and-Between: Recent Cultural Sociology in Europe and the United
States" (with Robert Wuthnow). Frontiers of Social Theory: The New Synthesis,
edited by George Ritzer. New York: Columbia University Press. Pp. 287-315.
1987 "The Production of Culture in France and the United States." The Role of
Intellectuals in Liberal Democracies, edited by Alain G. Gagnon. New York:
Praeger. Pp. 167-178.
1985 "Institutional and Intellectual Differences Between American and French
Sociology." Political Science and Science Policy in an Age of Uncertainty, edited
by B. Crousse and M. Th. Graeven. Frankfurt and New York: Campus Verlag.
Pp. 119-144.
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Online Publications
2011 “Discussion on Michèle Lamont‟s “How Professors Think”” (with Yuri Kazepov,
Federico Savini, Leonardo Catena, Zhang Hongbo, Komlik Oleg, Maria Agodi).
Sociologica , posted on October 21, 2011.
http://www.sociologica.mulino.it/news/newsitem/index/Item/News:NEWS_ITEM:244
2011 "A Fresh Approach to Culture." (with Mario L. Small and David J.
Harding). Spotlight on Poverty, posted August 15, 2011.
http://www.spotlightonpoverty.org/ExclusiveCommentary.aspx?id=7aacf39a-9a80-
474a-8cad-a4238f19a4af
2010 “The Multiple Crises of French Universities.” Council of National Associations,
posted January 28, 2010. http://isacna.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/the-multiple-crisesof-french-universities1/
2009 “Is Your Stuff Up to Snuff?” Teachers College Record, Date Published: November
24, 2009. http://www.tcrecord.org ID Number:
15847, Date Accessed: 11/25/2009 11:55:20 AM.
2009 “A Fairness Doctrine For Academia.” The Huffington Post, posted May 8, 2009.URL:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michele-lamont/a-fairness-doctrine-fora_b_200201.html.
2009 “Opening the Black Box of Peer Review.” The Huffington Post, posted April 30,
2009. URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michele-lamont/opening-the-black-boxof_b_192841.html.
2009 “Diversity and Excellence in Higher Education: not Alternatives but Additives.” The
Huffington Post, posted April 27, 2009. URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
michele-lamont/diversity-and-excellence_b_191164.html.
2009 “Re-examining the Funding of Academia through Obama's Recovery Act.” Daily Kos,
posted March 26, 2009. URL: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/3/26/713300/-Reexaming-the-funding-of-academia-through-Obamas-Recovery-Act.
2007 “Cultural Diversity and Poverty Eradication” (with Mario Luis Small). Background
paper, World Report on Cultural Diversity, UNESCO. URL:
http://scholar.harvard.edu/lamont/publications/cultural-diversity-and-povertyeradication
2005 "Peer Evaluation in the Social Sciences and Humanities Compared: The United States,
the United Kingdom and France" (with Grégoire Mallard). Report prepared for the
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Ottawa: SSHRC. 40 pp.
URL : http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~mlamont/SSHRC-peer.pdf
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Published Reports, Review Essays and other Essays
Forthcoming Review of “Political Epistemics: the Secret Policy, the Opposition, and the End
of East German Socialism,” by Andreas Glaeser. In American Journal of
Sociology, July 2012.
2011 “Opening the Black Box of Evaluation: How Quality is Recognized by Peer
Review Panels.” (with Katri Huutoniemi). Bulletin of the Swiss Academy of
Humanities and Social Sciences. 2: 47-49.
2010 “What Makes a Society Successful?” Perspectives on Europe. 40 (1): 13-14.
2010 "Building Socio-emotional-cognitive Platforms for Interdisciplinary
Collaboration" (with Veronica Boix Mansilla, Kyoko Sato, Flossie Chua, Sabine
Hoidn, and Analia Ivanier). Report prepared for the Canadian Institute of
Advanced Research Successful Interdisciplinary Collaborations Study. 95 pp.
2010 "Building Socio-emotional-cognitive Platforms for Interdisciplinary
Collaboration: Case Studies" (with Veronica Boix Mansilla, Kyoko Sato, Flossie
Chua, Sabine Hoidn, and Analia Ivanier). Report prepared for the Canadian
Institute of Advanced Research Successful Interdisciplinary Collaborations
Study. 171 pp.
2010 “From Where I Sit: Dashed Hope Brings Ill Wind.” Times Higher Education,
February 4. http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=
26&storycode=410230&c=1 è
2009 “The French Model” (with Eloi Laurent). International Herald Tribune,
December 18, 2009.
Reprinted in The New York Times, December 18, 2009. URL: http://www.
nytimes.com/2009/12/19/opinion/19iht-edlaurent.html?_r=2&ref=global.
2009 "The French Disconnection" (with Bruno Cousin). Times Higher Education.
1,925 (December 3-9, 2009): 32-37.
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/hybrid.asp ?type
Code=58&pubCode=1&navcode=103.
Reprinted in International Sociological Association E-Bulletin, March 2010.
2009 Review of “Rethinking Expertise,” by Harry Collins and Robert Evans. In
American Journal of Sociology. 115 (2): 569–571.
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2009 “NSF Report Tackles Standards of Evaluation for Qualitative Research” (with
Patricia White). Footnotes 37 (6). http://www.asanet.org/footnotes/nsf_0709.html.
2009 "The Wear and Tear of Our Daily Lives." (with Peter Hall). The Globe and Mail,
November 13, 2009. URL: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/thewear-and-tear-of-our-daily-lives/article1363167/
2008 “Promoting Excellence in Research – An International Blue Ribbon Panel
Assessment of Peer Review Practices at the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada.” Social Science and Humanities Research Council
of Canada. URL: http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/about-au_sujet/publications/peerpairs_e.pdf
2007 Review of “Injustices : expérience des inégalités au travail.“ by François Dubet,
Valérie Caillet, Régis Cortéséro, David Mélo, Françoise Rault. Sociologie du
travail. 49 (4): 559-561.
2007 "Bridging Boundaries: the Equalization Strategies of Stigmatized Ethno-racial
Groups Compared." (with Christopher A. Bail). Minda de Gunzburg Center for
European Studies Working Paper Series, Issue # 154.
2007 “What Makes a Society Succeed? “ (with Peter Hall). Reach: the magazine of the
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Spring 2007
2007 "A Strategy for Assessing Science: Behavioral and Social Research on Aging."
National Research Council, and Committee on Assessing Behavioral and Social
Science Research on Aging. Edited by Irwin Feller and Paul C. Stern.
Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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.
2006 "Le mal américain." (with Eloi Laurent ; in French). Commentary in
Liberation.fr, posted July 6, 2006. URL:
http://www.liberation.fr/opinions/rebonds/ 191556.FR.php.)
2005 "Le cas Derrida vu par la sociologie des sciences génealogie d'un succès."
(published in French).Sciences Humaines, special issue 3 (May-June): 68-70.
2005 "Ethno-Racism and the Transformation of Collective Identities." Centerpiece:
Newsletter of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs 19/20 (3/4): 3, 7.
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2004 "Recruiting, Promoting, and Retaining Women Academics: Lessons from the
Literature." Prepared for the Standing Committee on the Status of Women,
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, December 8.
2004 "Theoretical Growth and Conceptual Foreplay." Perspectives. Newsletter of the
ASA Theory Section 27 (3): 5
2004 "Theoretical Cultures in the Social Sciences and the Humanities." Perspectives:
Newsletter of the ASA Theory Section 27 (2): 5.
2004 "The Theory Section and Theory Satellites." Perspectives. Newsletter of the ASA
Theory Section 27 (1): 5.
2004 "Evaluating Qualitative Research: Some Empirical Findings and an Agenda."
Workshop on Scientific Foundations of Qualitative Research, edited by Charles
C. Ragin, Joane Nagel, and Patricia White. Washington, D.C.: National Science
Foundation. Pp. 91-95.
2004 Review of "Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences," edited by
James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer (New York: Cambridge University
Press, 2003). Contemporary Sociology. 33 (5): 617-618.
2004 Review of "Talk of Love" by Ann Swidler. American Journal of Sociology 109
(5): 1201-1202.
2002 "Report on the 13th International Conference of Europeanists." European Studies
Newsletter 31 (516): 4-5.
2001 "Cultural Repertoires: An Introduction." Comparative and Historical Sociology.
Newsletter of the ASA Comparative and Historical Sociology Section 13 (3): 1-
2.
Reprinted in in the Culture, Newsletter of the Culture Section of the ASA, Spring
2002.
2001 "How to Become Bigger than One." Christian Science Monitor. January 2. Pp.
13-16.
2001 "Comparative Cultural Sociology and the Study of Europe." European Studies
Newsletter 30 (3-4): 9-11.
2001 "Evaluating Interdisciplinary Scholarship (with Joshua A. Guetzkow). Items and
Issues. Newsletter of the Social Science Research Council. 1 (3-4): 12-13.
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2001 "Three Questions for a Big Book: Collins' The Sociology of Philosophies."
Sociological Theory 19 (1): 86-91.
1999 "Too Much Economics" (with Virág Molnár). Boston Review. 24 (3-4): 18-19.
Reprinted in Do Americans Shop too Much? By Juliet Schor, edited by Joshua
Cohen and Joel Rodgers. Boston: Beacon Press. Pp. 75-80. 1999.
1996 "Snobbism: A Tradition on its Way to Extinction?" (Italian). Prometeo. Revista
Trimestrale Di Scienze E Storia.
1995 "The Mysteries of Fluid Identities." Culture. 9 (2).
1995 "Ferments from the Field." Culture. 9 (4).
1994 "Postcard from L.A." Culture. 9 (1).
1994 "Symbolic Politics and the Hill/Thomas Affair." Contemporary Sociology.
(Review essay).
Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, edited by Jeff Hunter. Farmington
Hills, MI: The Gale Group. 2001.
1992 "Boudon on Truth or Some Cognitive Explanations for Theoretical Seduction."
Contemporary Sociology. 21 (2). (Review essay).
1992 "Crisis or No Crisis: Culture and Theory in Sociology, the Humanities, and
Elsewhere." Culture. 6 (2).
1989 "Slipping the World Back in: Bourdieu on Heidegger," Contemporary Sociology.
18 (5). (Review essay).
Selected Audio, Video, and Podcasts (last 3 years)
2012 Special Issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies on Responses to Racism with the Guest
Editors, Michèle Lamont and Nissim Mizrachi. Taylor and Francis Online.
http://www.tandfonline.com/sda/2106/audioclip-rers-35-3.mp3
2011
"Culture of Poverty and Social Resilience, An Interview with Michèle Lamont.”
By Nicolas Duvoux, Nadège Vezinat & Elise Tenret.. URL:
http://www.booksandideas.net/Culture-of-poverty-and-Social.html?lang=fr
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2011 "Retrouver le sens de la vie sociale" By Nicolas Duvoux, Nadège Vezinat, & Elise
Tenret. http://www.laviedesidees.fr/Retrouver-le-sens-de-la-vie.html?lang=fr
2010 “Reconsidering Culture and Poverty: A Congressional Briefing.” American
Academy of Political and Social Science. URL: http://blog.aapss.org/index.cfm?
commentID=119
2009 “What Makes a Society Succeed?” Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
URL: http://www.cifar.ca/web/podcasts/lamont.mp3
2009 “CIFAR: Successful Societies - How Institutions and Culture Affect Health.” Munk
Center, University of Toronto. URL: http://hosting.epresence.tv/MUNK/1/watch/
142.aspx
2009 “Michèle Lamont and How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of
Academic Judgment.” Harvard University Press. URL:
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/ audio/ LAMHOW.mp3
2009 “Interview with Michèle Lamont.” Academic Evolution posted May 14, 2009.
URL: http://www.academicevolution.com/2009/05/podcast-005-interview-withmich%C3%A8le-lamont.html
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. URL: http://cesblog.fas.harvard.edu/cesPodcasts/
?p=205
2009 “Michèle Lamont discusses her new book, How Professors Think." National
Science Foundation, posted March 31, 2009. URL: http://www.nsf.gov/news/
news_videos.jsp?cntn_id=114497&media_id=64862&org=NSF
Editorial Activities
Series Co-editor, Princeton Series in Cultural Sociology, Princeton University Press (1996-).
Member of Editorial Board, Ethnic and Racial Studies (2009- ).
Member of Editorial Board, Sociological Theory (2009- )
Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Cultural Economy (2007- ).
Member of Editorial Board, Cultural Sociology (2006-).
Member of Editorial Board, Du Bois Review (2004- ).
Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Consumer Culture (2000- ).
Member of Editorial Board, French Politics, Culture, and Society (1999- ).
Member of Editorial Board, The Tocqueville Review (1997- ).
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Member of Editorial Board, Canadian Journal of Sociology (1997-2008).
Member of Editorial Board, Member of Editorial Board, Sociologie et Sociétés (1996-2007).
Member of Editorial Board, Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Literature, the Media,
and the Arts (1995- ).
Member of Editorial Board, Sociological Forum (1995- ).
Member of Editorial Board, Politique et sociétés (1995-2000).
Member of Editorial Board, Theory, Culture, and Society (1988- ).
Member of Editorial Board, European Journal of Social Theory (2002-2009).
Member of Editorial Board, American Sociological Review (2000-2004).
Member of Editorial Board, Sociological Theory (2000-2001).
Member of Editorial Board, Genèses. Sciences sociales et histoire (1999-2009).
Member of Editorial Board, Canadian Journal of Political Science (1997- 2000).
Member of Editorial Board, Book Review Committee, French Politics and Society (1997-
1999).
Member of Editorial Board, Contemporary Sociology (1994-1997).
Associate Editor, Cambridge Cultural Social Studies, Cambridge University Press (1990-1996).
Elected Positions in Professional Associations
Council Member, American Sociological Association, 2006-2008.
Chair, Council for European Studies, 2006-2009.
Chair, Theory Section, American Sociological Association, 2003-2004.
Member of Executive Committee, Council for European Studies, 2001-2006.
Council Member, Comparative and Historical Sociology Section, American Sociological
Association, 1997-2000.
Council Member, Theory Section, American Sociological Association, 1997-1999.
Member, Committee on Committees, American Sociological Association, 1996-1998.
Member, Nominations Committee, American Sociological Association, 1993-1995.
Chair, Culture Section, American Sociological Association, 1994-1995; Chair elect, 1993-
1994.
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Council Member, Culture Section, American Sociological Association, 1992-1993.
Consultancy (selected)
World Bank, “The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Youth.” 2011.
Unesco, Background paper for the World Report on Cultural Diversity, 2007.
Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, 2001.
Other Services in Professional Associations (selected)
Member, Committee on Awards, American Sociological Association, 2004-2008.
Member, Committee for the Public Understanding of Sociology, American Sociological
Association, 2007-2008.
Member, Program Committee, American Sociological Association, 2006.
Chair, Nominations Committee, Theory Section of the ASA, 2004-2005.
Member, Search Committee for New Executive Director, Council for European Studies, 2004.
Member, Program Committee, 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological
Association, 2004.
Organizer, Mini-conference on "Analyzing Theoretical Cultures," American Sociological
Association Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 2004.
Organizer, session on "Sociological Theory and Empirical Research," mini-conference of the
Theory Section, American Sociological Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 2002.
Co-organizer, session on "Theoretical and Empirical Implications of 'Cultural Repertoires'" and
"Culture and Comparative Sociology: the Tension Between Context and Generalization" (with
Charles Ragin). Co-sponsored by the Comparative and Historical Society Section and the
Culture Section, American Sociological Association Meeting, Anaheim, CA, August 2001.
Organizer, Special session on "Racialized Ways of Seeing," American Sociological Association
meetings, Anaheim, CA, August 2001.
Council for European Studies: Chair of the Program Committee, Annual Meetings, March 14-
16, 2001. Chicago, IL.
Appointed member of Nominations Committee, Sociological Research Association, 1997-
1998.
Culture Section, American Sociological Association: Membership Committee, 1991-92;
Nominations Committee, 1990-91; Program Committee, 1990-91; Publication
Committee, 1989-90.
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Theory Section, American Sociological Association: Chair, Nominations Committee, 1991-92.
Comparative Historical Sociology Section, American Sociological Association: Chair,
Nominations Committee, 1989-90.
Organizer, thematic session on "Cultural Transitions," American Sociological Association
Meetings, Chicago, IL, August 1999.
Organizer, regular sessions on "The Sociology of Knowledge and of Intellectuals," American
Sociological Association meetings, San Francisco, CA, August 1998.
Organizer, sessions on "Symbolic Boundaries," Eastern Sociological Association, Philadelphia,
PA, March 1995.
Co-organizer (with Ann Swidler), Conference on "Meaning and Measurement" and Symbolic
Boundaries, George Mason University, August 1995.
Co-organizer, Princeton-Rutgers Conference on "Culture and Cognition," Rutgers University,
1994.
Program Committee, Conference on "Practicing Theory: Intellectual and Institutional
Challenges," Theory Section, American Sociological Association, San Diego, CA, August
1994.
Program Chair, Culture Section, American Sociological Association meeting. Organized
sessions on "Theory and Culture;" "Class, Race, and Culture;" "Culture Across Disciplinary
Boundaries;" and an "Author Meets the Critics" session, Los Angeles, CA, 1994.
Organizer, regular session on "The Sociology of Knowledge," American Sociological
Association Meetings, Miami, FL, 1993.
Organizer, thematic session on "Culture, Intellectuals and Politics," American Sociological
Association meeting, Miami, FL, 1993.
Organizer, session on "Inequality, Cultural Hierarchies and Cultural Institutions," International
Institute of Sociology conference, Paris, June 1993.
Chair and co-organizer (with Diana Crane), sessions on "The Sociology of Culture," Culture
Section, American Sociological Meetings, Cincinnati, OH, 1991.
Organizer, session on "Subcultures," Culture section, American Sociological Association
annual meetings, Atlanta, GA, 1988.
Membership in Research Groups (selected)
National Research Council Committee on the Evaluation of Research on Aging, National
Academy of Science, 2004-2006.
Planning Group on "Successful Societies," Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, 2002-
2003.
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Member, working group, "The Social Sciences at Risk: The Differential Impact of Changing
University Environments on the Sciences, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities." Ford
Foundation, 2003- 2004.
Member, Society for Comparative Research, 1998- .
Correspondent member, European Society for the Sociology of Art and
Design (ESSAD), 1998- .
Associate Faculty, Institute for French Studies, New York University. 1997- .
Member, Council on Work, Russell Sage Foundation, 1997-1999.
Co-director (with Laurent Thévenot), Paris-Princeton Project on Evaluative Models. Center of
Excellence in French Studies (Princeton University), Institut international de Paris - La
Defense, and Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, 1993-1999.
Member, Research Group on the Birth and Death of Norms, Russell Sage
Foundation, 1996-98.
University Service (at Harvard University):
2009-2010 Member, Committee on Appointments and Promotions, Faculty of Arts and
Sciences
2009-2010 Senior Advisor on the Faculty Development and Diversity, Faculty of Arts and
Sciences
2009-2010 Member, Search Committee, Assistant to the President
2008-2009 Member, Social Science Planning Committee, Office of the Provost
2008-2010 Member, Common Space Planning Committee (University-wide)
2006-2007 Search Committee, Dean of the Radcliffe Institute
2006- Member, Interdisciplinary Standing Committee on Global Health, Faculty of
Arts and Sciences
2005- Member of Steering and Executive Committees, Weatherhead Center for
International Affairs
2004- Co-chair, Exclusion and Inclusion in an Expanded Europe Study Group, Center
for European Studies
2004- Advisory Board, MacKenzie King Chair in Canadian Studies, Weatherhead
Center for International Affairs
2004-2007 Departmental Representative, Joint Doctoral Program in Social Policy
2006 Member, Educational Policy Committee, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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2004-2006 Member, Social Science Advisory Council, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
2004-2010 Member, Standing Committee for the Status of Women
2004-2005 Co-chair, French Study Group, Center for European Studies
2003- Member, Committee on Ethnic Studies
2003- Faculty Associate, Center for European Studies
2003- Faculty Affiliate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
2003-2005 Member, Standing Committee on Degrees in Social Studies
2003- Member, Board of Advisers, W.E.B. Dubois Institute
Selected Presentations
Invited Conference Papers (past five years):
“Reconsidering How Professors Think." Conference on Evaluation in Higher Education and
Research, Institut francilien 'Recherche, innovation, société,' Florence, Italy, September 2010.
"Reconsidering How Professors Think." Conference on Criteria and Procedures for Evaluating
Research Quality in the Humanities,” Rectors‟ Conference of the Swiss Universities (CRUS),
University of Zurich, October 2010.
"Author meets the critics panel on How Professors Think.” Social Science History Association
meetings, Chicago, November 2010.
“Comparing Customary Rules of Fairness: Evaluative Practices in Various Types of Peer
Review Panels.” Peer Review Practices and Risk-taking in Funding Path-breaking Research,
Research Workshop, Stockholm, April 2011.
“Cultural Boundaries and Inequality in Comparative Perspective.” Network for the Studies of
Cultural Distinctions and Social Differentiation (SCUD), Conference on Field analysis,
boundary drawing and socio-cultural inequality, York, May 2011.
"Theorizing about Evaluation across Sociological Objects.” Conference on Studying Evaluation
Processes in Contemporary Society,” University of Leuven, Belgium, May 2011.
« L‟évaluation par les pairs. » Colloque “L'université dans le monde: Quels liens entre
l'université française, le monde de la décision publique, et celui de l'entreprise ?” Conférence
organisée par le Rectorat de Paris, La Sorbonne, June 2011.
“The Study of Social Knowledge Making.” Conference on “The Sociology of the Social
Sciences 1945-2010,” Copenhagen Business School, June 2011.
"Responses to Destigmatization: Comparative Perspectives." Plenary session, International
Sociological Association meetings, Gothenberg, Sweden, July, 2010.
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"Building Socio-emotional-cognitive Platforms for Interdisciplinary Collaboration." (with
Kyoko Sato and Veronica Boix Mansilla). American Sociological Association Meetings,
Atlanta, August 2010.
"Building Socio-emotional-cognitive Platforms for Interdisciplinary Collaboration" (with
Kyoko Sato and Veronica Boix Mansilla). Society for the Social Studies of Sciences meetings,
Tokyo, August 2010.
"Responding to Stigmatization and Gaining Recognition: Evidence from Middle Class and
Working Class African-Americans." (with Crystal Fleming and Jessica Welburn). American
Sociological Association meetings, Atlanta, August 2010.
"Reconsidering Culture and Poverty." (with David Harding and Mario Luis Small). Session on
Culture and Poverty, American Sociological Association meetings, August 2010.
“Congressional Briefing on “Reconsidering Culture and Poverty.” (with David Harding, Mario
Small and William Julius Wilson.) Capitol Hill, May 2010.
“The Culture of Evaluation in the United States.” Conference on “Evaluation: New Balance of
Power?“ organized by the Institute for Quality Assurance and Research Information (iFQ) in
cooperation with the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) and Humbold University,
June 2010.
“Author meets the critics panel on How Professors Think.” Council for European Studies,
Montreal, April 2010.
“Author meets the critics panel on How Professors Think.” American Educational Research
Association, Denver, CO, March 2010.
"Cream Rising: When and Why American Academics Believe in Peer Review.” International
conference on research evaluation, Institute of Analysis of Change in Contemporary and
Historical Societies, Université de Louvain, Belgium, December 2009.
“The Sociology of Peer Review.” Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA)
conference, University of Berlin, December 2009.
“Author meets the critics panel on How Professors Think.” Society for the Social Studies of
Science, Washington DC, November 2009.
“Culture, Poverty, and Immigration,” International Migration Section, American Sociological
Association, Pre-conference workshop. Session on Culture and Immigration (with Mario
Small). August 2009.
Assessing Excellence Through Peer Review, Panel organized by the Canadian Social Science
and Humanities Research Council, Canadian Learned Societies Meeting, Ottawa, May 2009.
"A Conversation around the Sociology of Culture," Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore,
MD, March 2009.
“Author meets the critics panel on How Professors Think.” Eastern Sociological Society
Baltimore, MD, February 2009
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« Changes in the French and American Upper-Middle Class.” Conference on "Les cadres:
Heurts et malheurs d'une catégorie." Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris,
January 2009.
Selected Invited Lectures (past five years):
"Responses to Stigmatization under Neo-liberalism: The Cases of Brazil, Israel, and the United
States." Humanities Center, University of Pittsburg, November 2010.
"Building Socio-emotional-cognitive Platforms for Interdisciplinary Collaboration" (with
Kyoko Sato and Veronica Boix Mansilla.) Centre de sociologie des organisations, Sciences Po,
Paris, December 2010.
“Reflections on a Research Trajectory. » Salon des thèses en science politique, Association
française de science politique, Paris, February, 2011.
”Par delà le bien et le mal: Controverses autour de la recherché qualitative en sciences sociales
aux Etats-Unis.” Keynote in conference series : Les sciences sociales en question: grandes
controverses épistémologiques et méthodologiques, Séminaire conjoint CEE/CERI, Science
Po, March 2011.
“Du rôle des émotions et des identités dans l'interdisciplinarité: comprendre l'émergence de
nouvelles plateformes sociocognitives.” First in a series of three conferences, Centre d‟étude
des mouvements sociaux et l'Institut Marcel Mauss, Ecole des hautes études en sciences
sociales, Paris, March 2011.
“How Successful Societies Foster Social Resilience: Responses to Racism in Brazil, France,
Israel, and the United States.” Second in a series of three conferences, Centre d‟étude des
mouvements sociaux et l'Institut Marcel Mauss, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales,
Paris. March 2011.
« De la culture de la pauvreté a la résilience sociale. » Third in a series of three conferences,
Centre d‟étude des mouvements sociaux et l'Institut Marcel Mauss, Ecole des hautes études en
sciences sociales, Paris. March 2011.
“Responses To Discrimination And Social Resilience Under Neo-Liberalism: The Case Of
Brazil, Israel And The United States.” Observatoire sociologique du changement, Sciences Po,
Paris, March 2011.
“Culture et pauvreté : perspectives transatlantiques.” (débat with Hugues Lagrange).
Conférence organisée par La vie des idées, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, April 2011.
« Réponses a la stigmatisation: Les cas des African-Americans, des Afro-Brésiliens, et de trois
groupes en Israel (les Mizrachis, les juifs éthiopiens, et les arabes israéliens. » Centre Maurice
Halbwachs, Ecole Normale Supérieure , Paris April 2011.
“Reflections on a Research Trajectory, » Ecole normale supérieure. Groupe de Recherches
Interdisciplinaires sur le Politique, Paris, May 2011.
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“Keynote: The Dynamics of Politics and Inequalities,” Conference Poline: The Politics of
Inequalities, Collaborative summer school, Sciences Po/Oxford, Paris, May 2011.
“Boundaries, Recognition, Social Resilience, and Other Keys to Successful Societies.”
Keynote Address, Border Crossing: Bridging Disciplines and Research Agendas. International
Interdisciplinary Conference, Social Science Research Council and IMéRA, Marseille, June
2011.
Keynote lecture “A propos de la construction de l‟objet comparative.” Journée d‟étude sur la
comparaison internationale en sociologie : enquête par des méthodes qualitative, Paris, June
2011.
“Successful Societies.” Infoshop, World Bank, May 2010.
“Successful Societies.” (with Ann Swidler). Governmental Accounting Office, Federal
Government, Washington, DC, May 2010.
“Destigmatization Strategies of African-American in the United Sates.” (with Anthony Jack,
Nicole Hirsch, and Jessica Welburn). Association of Alums of Color, Graduate School of
Education, Harvard University, April 2010.
“Successful Societies.” Conference of the Center for Culture and Theory, Yale University,
April 2010.
“How Professors Think.” Conférence anniversaire de l‟Université du Québec à Montréal,
Centre de Recherche de la Science et de la Technologie, Avril 2010.
“How Professors Think.” Department of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley,
March 2010
“Stigmatization and Health Outcome.” Conference on Medical Sociology, Wellesley College,
March 4, 2010.
“Successful Societies.” Poline research group, Science Po, December 2010.
“Successful Societies.” Conference on the Politics of Inequality, Science Po, Paris, December
2009.
“How Professors Think.” Yale Legal Theory Workshop, Yale Law School, November 2009.
“How Professors Think.” Department of Sociology, Columbia University, November 2009.
Panel on Successful Societies, Center for European Studies, Harvard, November 2009.
Panel on Successful Societies, University of Toronto, Munk Center, October 2009.
“How Professors Think.” Groupe de sociologie politique et morale, Ecole des hautes études en
sciences sociales, Paris, June 2009.
“Social Boundaries.” Ecole normale supérieure, June 2009.
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“Successful Societies.” Global Studies, University of Minnesota, February 2009.
“How Professors Think.” Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, February 2009.
Alpha Kappa Delta Distinguished Lecture, American Sociological Association meeting,
August 2006.
Department of Sociology, New School for Social Research, April 2006.
Cultural Sociology Speaker, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, April 2006.
Mellon Lecture on Interdisciplinarity, Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of
Chicago, February 2006.
"Quality Assessment of Interdisciplinary Work." American Association for the Advancement
of Science, February 2006.
Graduate and Undergraduate Teaching
Courses Taught at Harvard University
Fall 2011 Sociology 98. Junior tutorial on Comparative Racism and Anti-Racism
Sociology 301. Special Reading and Research: Sociology of Evaluation
Sociology 304. Workshop on Culture and Social Analysis
Spring 2010 Sociology 304. Workshop on Culture and Social Analysis
Fall 2009 Sociology 98. Junior tutorial on Comparative Racism and Anti-Racism
Sociology 301. Special Reading and Research: Identity and Group Formation
Sociology 304. Workshop on Culture and Social Analysis
Spring 2009 Sociology 236. Graduate seminar on Selected Topics in Culture & Inequality
Sociology 304. Workshop on Culture and Social Analysis
Fall 2008 Sociology 98. Junior tutorial on Comparative Racism and Anti-Racism
Sociology 204. Sociological Theory: Seminar
Sociology 304. Workshop on Culture and Social Analysis
Spring 2007 Sociology 98. Junior tutorial on Comparative Racism and Anti-Racism
Sociology 194. Knowledge Production and Evaluation in the Social Science
Sociology 304. Workshop on Culture and Social Analysis
Spring 2006 Sociology 98. Junior tutorial on Comparative Racism and Anti-Racism
Sociology 236. Graduate seminar on Selected Topics in Culture & Inequality
Sociology 304. Workshop on Culture and Social Analysis
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Fall 2004 Sociology 154. Culture, Power, and Inequality
Sociology 209. Qualitative Social Analysis
Sociology 304. Culture and Social Analysis Workshop
Fall 2003 Sociology 204. Sociological Theory: Seminar
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