Carole Lee

Carole Lee is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Washington, and affiliate faculty at the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences as well as the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology. Her research focuses on the allocation of scholarly resources such publication pages and grant dollars among academic researchers, with a focus on peer review standards, practices, and biases.

Carole holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2006). She received a Career Enhancement Award (funded by the Mellon Foundation and administered by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, 2013), and won first prize with her collaborator Elena Erosheva for Most Creative Submission to the National Institute of Health’s Peer Review Challenge (2014).

She is under contract with NIH to study possible racial disparities in their grant outcomes (2016 – 2017) and serves as a coordinating committee member for the Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines (2016 – 2018).