Michele Lamont

Michele Lamont is a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and is co-director of its research program on Successful Societies. Past responsibilities include chair of the Council for European Studies (2005 2009) and senior advisor on Faculty Development and Diversity, Faculty of the Arts and Sciences, Harvard (2008 2010). Professor Lamont has published on the topics of inequality, culture, race, immigration, knowledge, theory, qualitative methods and comparative sociology. She...See more

Michele Lamont is a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and is co-director of its research program on Successful Societies. Past responsibilities include chair of the Council for European Studies (2005 2009) and senior advisor on Faculty Development and Diversity, Faculty of the Arts and Sciences, Harvard (2008 2010). Professor Lamont has published on the topics of inequality, culture, race, immigration, knowledge, theory, qualitative methods and comparative sociology. She taught at Princeton University for fifteen years before moving to Harvard in 2003. She is the author of more than 80 articles and a dozen books and edited volumes, including How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment, The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration (winner of the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems) and Money, Morals and Manners: The Culture of the French and the American Upper-Middle Class. Her research has been supported by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, the Center for Advanced Research in the Behavioral Sciences, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Institute for Advanced Studies, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Lilly Endowment, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, and the Russell Sage Foundation. See less