HOW PROFESSORS THINK: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment

LISTEN TO AUTHOR INTERVIEW:
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/audio/LAM...

"In this ingenious study, the first of its kind, Michèle Lamont opens an important and mysterious black box--how professors arrive at 'fair evaluations'. Lamont brilliantly shows us not only the interpersonal processes that make review panels work, but also how disciplinary cultures affect academic judgment, and what the political and knowledge consequences are of the way we judge excellence. It will be enlightening for everyone in academia."
--Karin Knorr Cetina, University of Chicago and University of Konstanz

All the deans and provosts who fret about their rankings and grant money should read this first hand account of how scholars and social scientists are evaluated in practice."
--Bruno Latour, author of Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy