How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment

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with three panels from the Finnish Academy of Science, see Lamont and
Huutoniemi (2007). For a comparison with seven disciplinary and interdisci-
plinary funding panels of the Standard Research Grants Program of the Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSRC), see Lamont et
al. (2006). Also see Guetzkow, Lamont, and Mallard (2004) and Mallard,
Lamont, and Guetzkow (forthcoming).



  1. See Cohen, March, and Olsen (1972); March and Olsen (1976). For an
    illuminating analysis of academic evaluation and decision making, see Powell
    (1985).

  2. I am grateful to Mitchell Stevens for these suggestions. He considers
    some of these topics in hisCreating a Class(2007).

  3. The ACLS also contributes funds to support fellowships in this SSRC
    program.

  4. The dissolution of eleven SSRC area-studies committees, and the cre-
    ation of the IDRF program, occurred under the direction of Kenneth Prewett.
    For a detailed description of the debates that surrounded this decision, see
    Worcester (2001).

  5. See the IDRF website at http://programs.ssrc.org/idrf.

  6. See the Woodrow Wilson Foundation website at http://www.woodrow.org/
    fellowships/women_gender/index.php (accessed July 8, 2008).

  7. Weisbuch (1999, 4).

  8. American Council of Learned Societies (n.d.).

  9. On repair work, see Garfinkel (1967).

  10. On indirect power, see Lukes (1974).

  11. Social Sciences Research Council (n.d.).

  12. D’Arms (1998).

  13. For a comparative perspective, see Walter Powell’s analysis of how
    editors in the book publishing industry select reviewers (1985, esp. chaps. 3
    and 4).

  14. On this topic, see also ibid.

  15. The role of networks is described in Chapter 4.

  16. On this topic see, for instance, Brint and Karabel (1989).

  17. I am grateful to Claude Rosental for this observation. See his own work
    on evaluation of logarithms in Rosental (2008).

  18. Collins (1998; 2004) on effervescence and the sharing of norms.

  19. Bourdieu (1997).

  20. Collins (1998).


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