Lamont, Michele

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LAMONT, Michele

LAMONT, Michele. Canadian, b. 1957. Genres: Sociology. Career: Stanford University, postdoctoral research fellow in sociology, 1983-85; University of Texas at Austin, assistant professor of sociology, 1985-87; Princeton University, assistant professor, 1987-92, associate professor of sociology, 1993-, fellow of Wilson College, 1987-89, faculty associate of Center for International Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, 1990-, fellow of Rockefeller College, 1990-. Harvard University, visiting fellow, Center for European Studies, 1987; Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), visiting fellow, Group for Political and Moral Sociology, 1992; New York Public Library, scholar in residence, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1992; New York University, visiting fellow, Institute of French Studies, 1993; Russell Sage Foundation, fellow, 1996-97; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, fellow, 1996-97; Institute for Advanced Study, visiting scholar, Spring 1997. Lecturer at Washington University, St. Louis, MO, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Centre Culturel de Cerisy-LaSalle, Cornell University, Harvard University, and Sorbonne, University of Paris; guest on Canadian radio programs. Publications: (ed. with Marcel Fournier) Cultivating Differences: Symbolic Boundaries and the Making of Inequality, 1992; Money, Morals, and Manners: The Culture of the French and the American Upper-Middle Class, 1992. Work represented in anthologies. Contributor of articles and reviews to sociology journals. Address: Department of Sociology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, U.S.A.

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