Michèle Lamont, PhD
Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies
Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies
Harvard University
Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies
Harvard University
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Michèle Lamont is the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, and professor of sociology and African and African American studies at Harvard University. A cultural and comparative sociologist, Lamont is the author of a dozen books and edited volumes and over one hundred articles and chapters on a range of topics including culture and inequality, racism and stigma, academia and knowledge, social change and successful societies, and qualitative methods.