- Gross (2008).
- On identity maintenance, see Goffman (1990). On opportunity hoard-
ing, see Tilly (1998). - Stevens (2007).
- On how much time academics spend working, see Jacobs (2004); also
Jacobs and Winslow (2004). - Specifically, this panelist recalls thinking, “Here was a project which
was going to really say something different about that period. I remember
pulling down this basic, what’s his name? Jim Doe, who has the basic Mideast
history, I’m not a Mideast historian, but I have him on my shelf. And [I]
pulled it down and looked at what he had to say. This is the sort of text that
someone like me who is not a specialist would go and look to, to find some-
thing out. And what this person had there was completely different and had
the potential of really reshaping what the standard text was, so I was very high
on that.” When asked whether he went to such trouble with many proposals,
he replied, “I did that, I think, with a few. One does what one can.” - On incommensurables, see Galison (1997); also Espeland and Stevens
(1998). - In his study of peer review at the National Science Foundation, Don
Brenneis noted that “participation in panel reading events plunges one into
... a normalization process—or ‘norming,’ as it is sometimes referred to in
in-house dialect.” (1994, 32). On learning how to evaluate, see Walker et al.
(2008); Gumport (2000b). - In one of the competitions I studied, proposals are not read by all the
panelists, only by a subset of them. For a discussion of differences between
panels that make final decisions and those that make only recommendations,
see Lamont and Huutoniemi (2007). - Garfinkel (1967).
- Much could be learned from studying age, race, and gender dynamics
on panels. Panel deliberations would, for example, provide fertile terrain for
those conversation analysts interested in the gendered patterns of interrup-
tions during group conversations (Kollack, Blumstein, and Schwartz [1985]);
likewise, they would offer a rich venue for investigating the gendered distribu-
tion of power and status within small groups. See Ridgeway (1997); also
Berger et al. (1993). - The analysis of Collins and Evans (2002; 2007) on warrants of exper-
tise and experience applies.
268 / Notes to Pages 36–49