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Harvard professor Michele Lamont has spent some time studying the studiers. She interviewed faculty members of peer review committees to gain an understanding of how academics make decisions about how to distribute money. Then she wrote a book about it. How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment (read an excerpt at HuffPo) discusses the not-so-secret subjectivity of criteria among peer review committees. What Lamont found was not necessarily surprising, but sheds some light on the best way to get what you’re going after in academia. We talked with her briefly last week. more ›