Center Director Michèle Lamont, Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studiesand professor of sociology and of African and African American studies, is the recipientof the 2017 Erasmus Prize. Left to right: Ernst Hirsch Ballin, Chairman of the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation; Her Majesty the Queen; Michèle Lamont; His Majesty the King, Patron of the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation; HRH Princess Beatrix; Shanti van Dam, Director of the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation in De Burgemeesters Raadzaal (the boardroom of the mayors). Photo credit: Erasmus Prize Foundation.
