Michèle Lamont

Michèle Lamont (born in Toronto, Canada in 1957) is a sociologist and is the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and a Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Harvard University.

Having completed a BA and MA in political theory at Ottawa University in 1979, Michèle Lamont received her PhD in Sociology from the french university of La Sorbonne in 1983. A post-doctoral Fellow at Stanford University from 1983–1985, Lamont later served as professor at the University of Texas-Austin (1985–1987), Princeton University (1987–1993), and Harvard University (2002–present).

Since 2002, Lamont has served as co-director of the Successful Societies Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. The interdisciplinary program brings together leading social scientists who meet three times a years to discuss how societies met various types of challenges. The group has produced two books: Successful Societies: How Institutions and Culture Affect Health (2009) and Social Resilience in the Neo-Liberal Era (2013). Both books coedited by and Michele Lamont were published by Cambridge University Press.

In 2009 and 2010, Lamont served as Senior Advisor on Faculty Development and Diversity in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. In July 2015 Lamont began a five-year mandate to serve as director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WCFIA). This center is among the largest social science centers at Harvard.

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