see
http://turesearch.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/how-professors-think/ ( )

Sadly overpromising title! This book is about how academics responsible for making fellowship grants think, and while this clearly has implications for broader issues it wasn’t what I was hoping for. Lamont documents differences by field in terms of how reviewers characterize excellence and the role of subjectivity—anthropologists are the most anxious about disciplinary issues, political scientists/economists least—and finds very little overt consideration of racial or socioeconomic diversity; diversity among fields and institutions tends to be much more important to reviewers. Theoretically rich, but not what I wanted to read. ( )