How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment

by Michèle Lamont

Book Overview

Excellence. Originality. Intelligence. Everyone in academia stresses quality. But what exactly is it, and how do professors identify it? In the academic evaluation system known as "peer review,"... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674032667
• ISBN13: 9780674032668
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

How professors think

Informative book for academics from all disciplines. Lamont studies how academics make decisions in real life. The context of the investigation is the expert panel work that some academics do on behalf of funding agencies in social sciences and humanities. So readers from those fields interested in getting funding should find the book as a useful tool.