Michèle Lamont
Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies
Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies
Address:
Harvard University
Department of Sociology
510 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.496.0645
Fax: 617.496.5794
Email: mlamont@wjh.harvard.edu
Courses | Biography | Recent Publications | Curriculum Vitae
Courses
Sociology 98L: Racism and Anti-Racism in Comparative Perspective
Sociology 236: Selected Topics in Culture and Inequality
Sociology 304: Culture Workshop
Biography
Michèle Lamont is Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She has done extensive research on racial and class boundaries in France and the United States. She has published widely in the fields of inequality, culture, race, immigration, knowledge, theory, qualitative methods, and comparative sociology. Her publications include The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration (2000 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems; 2001 Mattei Dogan Award for the Best Comparativist Book, Society for Comparative Research); Money, Morals, and Manner: The Culture of the French and the American Upper-Middle Class; Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology: Repertoires of Evaluation in France and the United States (with Laurent Thévenot); The Cultural Territories of Race: Black and White Boundaries; and Cultivating Differences: Symbolic Boundaries and the Making of Inequality. Her articles have appeared in American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Annual Review of Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Sociological Theory, and numerous other journals. During the 2006-2007 academic year, she held the Matina Horner Professorship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, where she completed a book titled Cream Rising: Finding and Defining Excellence in the Social Sciences and the Humanities. She also completed a collective book titled Successful Societies: Culture, Institutions, Health, and Collective Development (co-directed with Peter A. Hall). She has started a new international collaborative research project on everyday antiracist strategies in Brazil, Israel, and the United States, with the support of grants from the National Science Foundation and the Weatherhead Initiative for International Affairs.
Professor Lamont is Chair of the Council for European Studies, the learned society of American social scientists and historians working on Europe. She is a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and is co-director of its research program on Successful Societies. Within this program, she is preparing (with Peter A. Hall) a collective volume on the impact of recognition and "robust institutions" on well-being. She has been the recipient of grants and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the German Marshall Funds, the National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the Lilly Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation. She has also been a visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She is coeditor of the "Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology" series at Princeton University Press.
Professor Lamont joined Harvard in 2003, after having taught at Princeton University for fifteen years. A Canadian, she obtained a BA and an MA in political science at Ottawa University before completing her doctorate at the Université de Paris in 1983. At Harvard, she serves on the executive committees of the Center for European Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. She is also a member of the Governing Committee of the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy (Kennedy School of Government), where she directs the European Network on Inequality.
Recent Publications
Michèle Lamont (2005). "Communauté et exclusion: Le role de l'immigration, de la race, et de la pauvreté." in Les codes de la différence. Race, Origine, Religion. France, Allemagne, Etats-Unis, edited by Riva Kastoryano. Paris: Les Presses de Science Po. Pp. 239-262.
Michèle Lamont and Christopher Bail (2005). "Sur les frontières de la reconnaissance. Les catégories internes et externes de l'identité collective." Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales . 21 (2): 61-90.
Michèle Lamont and Crystal Fleming (2005). "Everyday Antiracism: Competence and Religion in the Cultural Repertoire of the African American Elite." W. E. B. Du Bois Review. 2 (1): 2943.
Michèle Lamont and Grégoire Mallard (2005). "Peer Evaluation in the Social Sciences and Humanities Compared: The United States, the United Kingdom and France." Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Ottawa: SSHRC. 40 pp.
The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration Michele Lamont, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (2000).
Money, Morals, and Manner: The Culture of the French and the American Upper-Middle Class Michele Lamont, Urbana, IL: University of Chicago Press (1992).
Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology: Repertoires of Evaluation in France and the United States Michele Lamont and Laurent Thévenot, eds., New York, NY: Cambridge University Press (2000).
The Cultural Territories of Race: Black and White Boundaries Michele Lamont, ed., New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation (1999)
Cultivating Differences: Symbolic Boundaries and the Making of Inequality Michele Lamont and Marcel Fournier, eds., Urbana, IL: University of Chicago Press, (1992)