Michèle Lamont is Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies at Harvard University. A cultural and comparative sociologist, she is the author or coauthor of four books and the editor of a dozen collective volumes/journal issues and over one hundred articles and chapters on a range of topics including culture and inequality, racism and stigma, social change and “successful societies,” and qualitative methods. A pioneer in the growing field of the sociology of evaluation, she is the author of publications such as How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgement (2009), Social Knowledge in the Making (2012), “Toward a Comparative Sociology of Valuation and Evaluation,” and Seeing Others: How Recognition Works and How it can Heal a Divided World (2023). Honors and awards include a Carnegie Fellowship (2019-2021), a Russell Sage Foundation fellowship (2019- 2020), the 2017 Erasmus prize, the Guttenberg Award (2014) and honorary doctorates from six countries. She served as the 108th President of the American Sociological Association in 2016-2017 and was recently elected at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.