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The main research question of this presentation is the combined estimation of the effects of educational systems, school-composition, track-level and country of origin on the educational achievement of 15-year-old immigrant students. The paper (co-authored with Rolf van der Velden & Allison Dunne) specifically focuses on the effects of socioeconomic and ethnic background on achievement scores and on the extent these effects are affected by characteristics of the school, track or educational system these students are in.

In this lecture, Lamont will discuss various aspects of her recent research on interdisciplinarity, which includes her book on peer review, How Professors Think, (Harvard University Press, 2009) and Social Knowledge in the Making (with Charles Camic and Neil Gross, University of Chicago Press,  August 2011). The latter proposes an agenda for the analysis of the production, evaluation, and application of social knowledge. She will also discuss her ongoing work on the conditions that lead to successful interdisciplinarity, as defined by members of interdisciplinary teams.