How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment

was treated more as a colleague than as an outsider. This was facili- tated by the welcoming attitude that program officers and ...

Because I am committed to preserving the anonymity of panel- ists and removing information that could lead to their identificati ...

each coder, and subject each transcript to coding by one coder and checking by another. The coding scheme took the following for ...

awareness has strengthened my view of research as a truly collective (and intergenerational) endeavor. It is against this backgr ...

of scholarly excellence. Finally, analyzing peer review panels at sev- eral funding institutions presents the advantages of bein ...

Notes 1 Opening the Black Box of Peer Review A general analysis of the system of peer review and of other means of allocating r ...

which emphasizes the role of individual rationalist models diffused by West- ern higher education. These evaluative cultures ar ...

setting, they usually recognize the style in play. They know whether the setting calls for participants to act like upstanding c ...

Ibarra (1992) and Reskin and McBrier (2000). For an analysis of claims based on arguments about cultural descent—particularly sa ...

In order to protect the participants’ anonymity, I do not specify the years. Likewise, I have altered certain identifying detai ...

In this sense, the book shares a kinship with the work of others who have been influenced by these traditions, such as Karin Kn ...

cent of the variance, with the rest being explained by “elements ‘behind the curtain’” (425). Harry Collins and Robert Evans ar ...

vocabulary of justification produced by an occupational group, rather than being actual, functioning norms of science. My analys ...

with three panels from the Finnish Academy of Science, see Lamont and Huutoniemi (2007). For a comparison with seven disciplinar ...

Gross (2008). On identity maintenance, see Goffman (1990). On opportunity hoard- ing, see Tilly (1998). Stevens (2007). On how ...

On performance of the self, see Goffman (1963). Eliasoph and Lichterman (2003). The term “satisficing” was coined by Herbert A. ...

See Knorr-Cetina (1999). Epistemology refers to theories of knowledge that are part of the philosophy of science tradition. Sta ...

“Humanists” include art historians, English professors, musicologists, and philosophers. While some historians are committed to ...

Pointing to the variety of approaches and substantive issues within contemporary American philosophy, Leiter (2004) notes that ...

studies scholars did not question the existence of the canon as much as rede- fine it—in strong contrast with their American cou ...