#  How Professors Think 

 



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....](http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/lamont/ProfThink-copy.pdf)

**NEW!** *How Professors Think* will be published in Spanish by Publicaciones de la Universidad de Valencia.

**Reviews**

2010 [Response](http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/lamont/Inside%20the%20Sausage%20Factory.pdf) to symposium around “How Professors Think”: Inside the Sausage Factory. Sociologica.

August 4, 2009. ["Peering Behind the Curtain of Peer Review"](http://www.universityaffairs.ca/peering-behind-the-curtain-of-peer-review.aspx) by Peggy Berkowitz. *University Affairs.*

2009\. [Michele Lamont Reveals How Professors Think—and Why?](http://bostonist.com/2009/05/05/michele_lamont_reveals_how_professo.php) *Bostonist,* posted May 5, 2009.

2009\. ["The 'Black Box' of Peer Review"](http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/03/04/peerreview) by Scott Jaschik. *Inside Higher Ed,* posted March 4, 2009.

**Articles**

2009\. [Is Your Stuff Up to Snuff?](http://www.tcrecord.org/Home.asp) *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\. [Les conditions de l’évaluation universitaire: Quelques réflexions à partir du cas américain](http://www.mouvements.info/spip.php?article409) (with Bruno Cousin). *Mouvements,* May 18, 2009.

2009\. [A Fairness Doctrine For Academia.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michele-lamont/a-fairness-doctrine-for-a_b_200201.html) *The Huffington Post,* posted May 8, 2009.

2009\. [Opening the Black Box of Peer Review.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michele-lamont/opening-the-black-box-of_b_192841.html) *The Huffington Post,* posted April 30, 2009.

2009\. [Diversity and Excellence in Higher Education: not Alternatives but Additives](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michele-lamont/diversity-and-excellence_b_191164.html). *The Huffington Post,* posted April 27, 2009.

2009, [Re-examing the funding of academia through Obama's Recovery Act](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/3/26/713300/-Re-examing-the-funding-of-academia-through-Obamas-Recovery-Act). *Daily Kos,* posted March 26, 2009.

**Interviews**

2010\. [Wikipedia Age Challenges Scholars' Sacred Peer Review](http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/24/arts/24peer.html?_r=1&emc=etal). *New York Times*, Posted on August 24, 2010.

2009\. [Reviewing the Reviewers: A Q&amp;A With Michèle Lamont.](http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i30/30b01301.htm) *The Chronicle of Higher Education,* posted April 3, 2009.

2009\. [Michèle Lamont : "L'expertise des chercheurs doit être au centre du dispositif d'évaluation."](http://www.nonfiction.fr/article-2361-michele_lamont__lexpertise_des_chercheurs_doit_etre_au_centre_du_dispositif_devaluation.htm) *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*.](http://www.hup.harvard.edu/audio/) Harvard University Press.

2009\. [Interview with Michèle Lamont.](http://www.academicevolution.com/2009/05/podcast-005-interview-with-mich%C3%A8le-lamont.html) *Academic Evolution* posted May 14, 2009.

2009\. [A Conversation about Michele Lamont’s book *“How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment.”*](http://cesblog.fas.harvard.edu/cesPodcasts/?p=205) Center for European Studies, Harvard University, posted April 8, 2009.

2009\. [Michèle Lamont discusses her new book, *"How Professors Think."*](http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_videos.jsp?cntn_id=114497&media_id=64862&org=NSF) National Science Foundation, posted March 31, 2009.



 

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