Michéle Lamont Wins Kohli Prize for Sociology

Stone Program faculty affiliate Michéle Lamont has won the 2024 Kohli Prize for Sociology, which honors exceptional achievement in and contributions to the field and profession of sociology. "With her path-breaking comparative research on culture, social inequality and inclusion, she has made a significant imprint on sociological knowledge," according to the Kohli Foundation for Sociology. The award ceremony is at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center on November 13, 2024.

Professor Lamont will also receive the Distinguished Career Award from the Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity Section of the ASA at this summer’s meeting, and has been elected to the American Philosophical Society.

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. Her books include Money, Morals and Manners: the Culture of the French and the American Upper-Middle Class (1992), The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration (2000), How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgement (2009), Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil and Israel (coauthored, 2016), and Seeing Others: How Recognition Works and How It Can Heal a Divided World (2023).