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Acknowledgments Nothing convinces me more of the collective character of knowledge production than finishing this book, which ha ...

am extremely grateful to each of you for your sense of adventure, generosity, and openness. I hope you will find your trust in m ...

process throughout. His substantive contributions, notably in the papers we coauthored, fed the argument of this book in a great ...

role by giving an essential “native” reader’s reaction to my descrip- tion of various disciplinary cultures in Chapter 3. I want ...

Sabrina Pendergrass, Lauren Rivera, Graziella Silva, and Jessica Welburn. I also thank the postdocs and the visiting graduate st ...

Index Academic Revolution, The,159–160 academic standards, 55; in English, 59, 69, 70–72, 75, 76–77, 104; in various disciplines ...

anthropology(continued) 87–88; evaluative criteria in, 90; anti-scientism in, 91; and multi- sited research, 91–92; ethnography ...

compromise, 204 Comte, Auguste, 9 confidentiality, 255 conflict avoidance, 116 confrontation, 116 congeniality, 48 connection, 3 ...

Douglas, Mary, 87 Dritz, Iona Mara, 285n23 Dubet, François, 51 Durkheim, Emile, 110, 126, 276n7 Ecole Normale Supérieure, 244 ec ...

French theory, 179 Fuller, Sally Riggs, 285n23 funding panels, 12–16, 136.See also in- dividual panel names Galison, Peter, 261n ...

Humanities Fellowship program, 13, 24 Hume, David, 176 humility, 195, 196, 199 hypothesis testing, 57 identity, 38, 200.See also ...

mechanics of peer review, 6 merit and meritocracy, 4, 51, 52, 163, 216, 237–238, 245, 265n56 meritocratic processes, 242–243 Mer ...

Passeron, Jean-Claude, 223 path dependency, 19 Perestroika Movement, 95 performance of self, 48–49 performative effects, 261n14 ...

representation, 203 reputation, 18, 112, 151–152 research, multi-sited, 91–92 respect, 46, 115, 118, 120, 139, 157 respondents i ...

Sorbonne, 244 soundness, 168, 169–170 sovereignty, 29, 158 Spivak, Gayatri, 208 standards, 150–151, 208–211 star system, 76 ster ...