How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment

addition, their expertise, being more purely interpretative in charac- ter, does not employ technical black-boxing tools of the ...

larly to “courageous risk-takers” and to “lazy conformists”—contra- dict the literature on peer review, which frames extra-intel ...

Determinationis associated with one’s ability to overcome hard- ship, and with a strong work ethic. Of his best student, a disti ...

there’s too much arrogance in academia... I always find restraint and modesty marvelous qualities in a first-rate scholar.” Auth ...

kind of complete absorption in his topic, and yet, an ability to com- municate that absorption...Youfeltthat there’s a real love ...

posed to differences between and within individual disciplines (the focus of Chapter 3). At the level of disciplinary cluster, s ...

tion criteria, I have also demonstrated here that in the vast and mul- tifaceted universe of academic evaluation, criteria such ...

countervailing forces define the coexisting strengths and weaknesses of grant peer review as it is practiced in American higher ...

6/Considering Interdisciplinarity and Diversity We are clearly without any kind of mystery about it: criteria other than excelle ...

We will see that in the world of funding panels, as in the world of American higher education, diversity takes many forms and co ...

should be assessed.^2 Principles of justice such as merit, need, and dis- tributive fairness are not all of the same order and t ...

by using a perspective in one discipline to modify a perspective in another discipline, (2) using research techniques developed ...

challenging thing to do effectively,” and concedes that “there are valid criticisms about the way historians have sometimes adop ...

neously: “If you can reach people outside your field, you’re interdis- ciplinary... A proposal that is able to speak across disc ...

as a rhetorical strategy than as something in which you really steep yourself in. It’s always a danger in interdisciplinary work ...

shouldn’t have this kind of work because we can’t judge it. We can’t tell whether it’s good or bad.’ And that seems to me a terr ...

tic accounts [I was studying] than anybody else did, and that meant that nobody really ever could say that I was wrong, and that ...

Not surprisingly, given the emergent quality of the standards of evaluation for interdisciplinary genres, panelists readily fall ...

cluded in this study explicitly require that panelists do not discrimi- nate. For instance, the website for the American Council ...

to a richer academic experience for all and to a broader production of talent for society as a whole.^22 Panelists do consider t ...