[[{"fid":"6997","view_mode":"default","fields":{"format":"default","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":""},"type":"media","attributes":{"height":"420","width":"300","style":"width: 200px; height: 280px; float: right; margin: 10px;","class":"media-element file-default"}}]]Former RSF Visiting Scholar and grantee Michèle Lamont (Harvard University) has been awarded the 2017 Erasmus Prize by the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation. The Erasmus Prize is one of Europe’s most prestigious awards in the field of humanities, social sciences and the arts. The Prize will be presented in November 2017 in Amsterdam.
 

During her time as a Visiting Scholar at the Foundation, Lamont researched the class, racial, and cultural differences among low-status white-collar and blue-collar workers residing in the suburbs of New York and Paris. She is editor of the book The Cultural Territories of Race (1999), which was co-published by RSF and the University of Chicago Press, and a contributor to the RSF volumes The Colors of Poverty (2010) and Evangelicals and Democracy in America (2011).

Read the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation’s press release.