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March, 2015
CURRICULUM VITAE
PHAEDRA DAIPHA
Department of Sociology
Rutgers University
26 Nichol Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
pdaipha@rci.rutgers.edu
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~pdaipha
EMPLOYMENT
2008-present Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University
Faculty Affiliate, Rutgers Climate Institute
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
Sociology, University of Chicago, 2007
M.A.
Sociology, University of Chicago, 1999
B.A.
Sociology and Philosophy, American College of Greece, 1994 (magna cum laude)
PRIOR ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2011
Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Social Organization, Princeton University
(four-month courtesy appointment)
2007-2008
Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University
2002-2005
Quarterly Lecturer, Social Sciences Collegiate Division, University of Chicago
RESEARCH AREAS
Knowledge Production, Organizational Decision Making, Professions, Information Visualization,
Diagnosis and Prognosis, Cultural Sociology, Uncertainty and Risk Management, Social Theory.
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PUBLICATIONS
BOOK
Daipha, Phaedra. Forthcoming (September 2015). Masters of Uncertainty: Weather Forecasters
and the Quest for Ground Truth. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
This book draws on an ethnographic study of forecasting operations at the National Weather
Service to analyze how weather forecasters achieve coherence in the face of deep uncertainty,
how they harness diverse information to project themselves into the future. In the process, it
advances a sociology of decision making that weaves together pragmatist theory, science and
technology studies, cultural sociology, organizational analysis, and cognitive psychology.
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Daipha, Phaedra. Forthcoming (2015). “From Bricolage to Collage: The Making of Decisions at a
Weather Forecasting Office.” Sociological Forum 30 (3): XX-XX.
Daipha, Phaedra. 2012. “Weathering Risk: Uncertainty, Weather Forecasting, and Expertise.”
Sociology Compass 6 (1): 15-25.
Daipha, Phaedra. 2010. “Visual Perception at Work: Lessons from the World of Meteorology.”
Poetics 38 (2): 150-164.
Daipha, Phaedra. 2001. “The Intellectual and Social Organization of ASA 1990-1997: Exploring
the Interface between the Discipline of Sociology and its Practitioners.” The American
Sociologist 32 (3): 73-90.
BOOK REVIEWS
Daipha, Phaedra. 2014. Talk at the Brink: Deliberation and Decision during the Cuban Missile
Crisis by David R. Gibson, American Journal of Sociology 119 (3): 888-890.
Daipha, Phaedra. 2010. On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters by Matthew
Desmond, American Journal of Sociology 115 (4): 1304-1306.
MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW
“How Doctors Make Decisions: The Role of Prognosis in Cardiology Practice.” (Book
Prospectus)
“Whose Weather Is It Anyway?: Expertise in the Public Domain.” (Revised and Resubmitted)
“Screenwork as the Social Organization of Expertise.” (Revised and Resubmitted)
WORK IN PROGRESS
“Reconfiguring Professional Identities: Weather Forecasting in the Digital Age.” (R&R, Science
as Culture)
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GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND HONORS
Seed Money Grant for “The Role of Prognosis in Medical Decision Making,” Office of the Vice
President for Research and Economic Development, Rutgers University, 2011
Honorable Mention, Richard Saller Dissertation Prize for most distinguished dissertation in the
Division of the Social Sciences in 2007, University of Chicago, 2008
University of Chicago Dissertation Teaching and Research Fellowship, 2004-2005
Honors, Special Field Exam in “The Organization of Scientific Knowledge Production,”
University of Chicago, 2000
University of Chicago Unendowed Fellowship, 1996-2000
German Academic Exchange Service Fellowship (“DAAD-Stipendium”), 1988
INVITED TALKS AND KEYNOTES
“What Can Weather Forecasters Teach Us About Managing Uncertainty?” Alpha Kappa Delta
(Sociology Honor Society), keynote speaker, Drew University, May 2015.
“Visuality and Materiality in the Production of Expertise: A Study of Decision Making as
Screenwork.” Material and Visual Worlds TAE, Binghamton University, February 2015.
“Whose Weather Is It Anyway?: Communicating Risk at the National Weather Service.” Rutgers
Initiative on Climate and Society, Rutgers University, April 2012.
“The Total Observation Collage: Mastering Uncertainty at a Weather Forecasting Office.”
Workshop on Social Organization, Princeton University, November 2011.
“Mastering Uncertainty: The Distillation of Complexity at a Weather Forecasting Office.”
Department of Sociology Colloquium Series, University of Pennsylvania, October 2010.
“Who Can Predict Mother Nature?: Weather Forecasters and the Quest for Ground Truth.”
Rutgers Initiative on Climate and Social Policy, Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers
University, October 2008.
“Preliminary Findings on the Weather Needs of Professional and Recreational Mariners in
Southern New England.” National Weather Service, Eastern Region Headquarters,
Bohemia, NY, June 2004.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
“The Role of Prognosis in Cardiology Practice: A Pragmatist Perspective,” Chicago, IL, August
2015.
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“Anticipating the Future: Temporal Regimes of Meteorological Decision Making,” San Francisco,
CA, August 2014.
“Screenwork as the Social Organization of Expertise,” New York, NY, August 2013.
“Whose Weather Is It Anyway? Calculating Risk at the National Weather Service,” Denver, CO,
August 2012.
“Toward an Embodied Cognitive Sociology,” Atlanta, GA, August 2010.
“Weathering the Seas: Commercial Fishermen’s Interaction with Weather and Weather
Information,” New York, NY, August 2007.
“The Total Observation Collage: Weather Forecasting and the Search for Ground Truth,”
Montreal, Canada, August 2006.
“Weather Forecasting in the IFPS Era: Paradigm Shifts, Carpet Bombings and Knobology,”
Philadelphia, PA, August 2005.
“The Intellectual and Social Organization of ASA 1990-7: Exploring the Interface between the
Discipline of Sociology and its Practitioners,” Washington DC, August 2000.
“Making the Transition: Work Experiences After High School,” (with Lisa Hoogstra and Dashiell
Shapiro), Chicago, IL, August 1999.
SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE
“Temporal Regimes of Meteorological Decision Making,” Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 2014.
“Screenwork as the Social Organization of Expertise,” San Diego, CA, October 2013.
“Whose Weather Is It Anyway? Calculating Risk at the National Weather Service,” Copenhagen,
Denmark, October 2012.
“Visual Perception at Work: Scientific Visualization at a Weather Forecasting Office,”
Washington, DC, October 2009.
“Weathering the Seas: Commercial Fishermen’s Interaction with Weather and Weather
Information,” Montreal, Canada, October 2007.
“The Total Observation Collage: Weather Forecasting and the Search for Ground Truth,”
Vancouver, Canada, November 2006.
“Negotiating the Weather: Weather Forecasting in the Digital Age,” Pasadena, CA, October 2005.
OTHER CONFERENCES
“Towards a Sociology of Organizational Decision Making in Action,” ASA-SKAT 25th
Anniversary Mini-Conference, Chicago, IL, August 2015.
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“The Duality of Meteorological Error: Managing Risk at the National Weather Service,”
Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL, April, 2015.
“The Total Observation Collage: Managing Uncertainty at a Weather Forecasting Office,”
American Society for Environmental History, Toronto, Canada, April 2013.
“Whose Weather Is It Anyway? Communicating Risk at the National Weather Service,”
International Association for Media and Communication Research, Istanbul, Turkey, July
2011.
“Screenwork and the Social Organization of Expertise,” Visualization at the Age of
Computerization Conference, Oxford, United Kingdom, March 2011.
“Who Can Predict Mother Nature?: Meteorologists, Fishermen, and Forecasting in Everyday
Life,” Weather, Local Knowledge and Everyday Life Conference, International
Commission for the History of Meteorology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2008.
“Re-configuring Professional Identities: Weather Forecasting in the Digital Age,” Eastern
Sociological Society, New York, NY, February 2008.
“The Total Observation Collage: Weather Forecasting and the Search for Ground Truth,”
MEPHISTOS Conference, University of Chicago, April 2006.
“Managing the Weather: Sociotechnical Change and Operational Forecasting,” 7th Annual
Chicago Ethnography Conference, University of Illinois at Chicago, February 2005.
TEACHING
COURSES TAUGHT
Undergraduate:
Development of Sociological Theory (2009-present)
Technology and Society (2012-present)
Introduction to Sociology (2009, 2010, 2014, 2015)
Sociology of Science and Technology (2008, 2010, 2011)
Revolution, Reform, and Resistance in the 20th Century (2003, 2005, University of Chicago)
Culture and Power (2002, University of Chicago)
Graduate:
Technology and Society (2008, 2015)
Ethnographic Methods (2009, 2014)
Social Research Methods (2010, 2012)
Sociology of Science (2007, 2012)
Various Independent Studies, 2009-present
Normality and Assistive Technologies, Information Technologies and Standardization
FORMAL MENTORING
Dissertation Committees (*Chair):
Alicia Raia (in progress)
Andrew Stroffolino (in progress)*
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Kathryn Burrows (in progress)
Eiko Saeki (in progress)
Kirsten Song (September 2015) – Visiting Assistant Professor, West Virginia University
Janet Lorenzen (February 2014) – Assistant Professor, Willamette University
Audrey Devine-Eller (June 2012) – Visiting Assistant Professor, Grinnell College
Dena Smith (August 2011) – Assistant Professor, University of Maryland-Baltimore County
Qualifying Paper Committees (*Chair):
Stephanie Alves (in progress), Niina Vuolajärvi (in progress)*, John Bailey (in progress),
Tsai-Yen Han (in progress)*, Farah Vallera (in progress), Brandon Kramer (2014), Kathryn
Burrows (2014)*, Eric Kushins (2012), Chris Jackson (2011), Andrew Stroffolino (2010),
Kirsten Song (2010), Neha Gondal (2008)
External Dissertation Reader:
Samuel Paris Hanes, Rutgers University (October 2008, Geography)
External Honors Reader:
Ben Bernard Herman, Swarthmore College (May 2014, Sociology)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
NATIONAL SERVICE
Panel Discussant, “The Ethics of Expert Public Warnings about Environmental Problems,”
Society for Social Studies of Science, Denver, CO, November 2015
Invited Participant, “Living with Extreme Weather: A Workshop to Integrate Understanding and
Improve Societal Response,” NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory/University of
Oklahoma, May 2015.
Panel Member, “Turning Your Dissertation into a Book,” The Interdisciplinary Ethnography
Workshop, Princeton University, April 2015
Panel Chair, “Visualization: Maps and Images,” Society for Social Studies of Science,
Washington, DC, October 2009
Candace Rogers Student Paper Award Committee, Eastern Sociological Society, 2008-2009.
Panel Chair, “Pathologies of Weather,” International Commission for the History of Meteorology,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2008
Shils-Coleman Memorial Award Committee, Theory Section, American Sociological Association,
2007-2008
Panel Chair, “Managing Nature,” Society for Social Studies of Science, Montreal, QE, October
2007
EDITORIAL WORK
Consulting Editorial Board, American Journal of Sociology, 2013-2015
Faculty Advisory Board, Rutgers Journal of Sociology, 2010-present
Book Review Board, American Journal of Sociology, 2000-2002
Ad Hoc Manuscript Reviewer
American Journal of Sociology, British Journal of Sociology, Bulletin of the American
Meteorological Society, Contexts, CRC Press, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography,
Social Forces, Social Studies of Science, Sociological Forum, The Sociological Quarterly
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RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
University Service:
Committee Member, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, 2012-present
Panel Member, “Extreme Weather and Climate Change: How Can We Address Uncertainty?,”
University Colloquium sponsored by the Initiative on Climate and Society and the
Climate and Environmental Change Initiative, March 2012
Departmental Service:
Area Captain – Environment, Technology, and Society Program, 2013-2015
Executive Committee (elected), 2009-2011, 2014-2015
Colloquium Committee, 2012-2014
Commencement Committee, 2011-2014
Undergraduate Teaching Committee, 2010-2012
Environmental Sociology Assistant Professor Search Committee, 2010-2011
Graduate Committee (elected), 2009-2010
First-Year Proseminar Coordinator, 2008-2009
Recruitment Committee, 2008-2009
Various Graduate Student Professionalization Workshops, 2008-present
Choosing a Dissertation Topic, Choosing a Qualifying Paper Topic, Preparing for
the Job Market, Preparing for ASA, Managing Your Professional Identity
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Sociological Association, 1999-present
Sections: Culture; Medical Sociology; Organizations, Occupations, and Work;
Science, Knowledge, and Technology; Theory
Society for Social Studies of Science, 2004-present
Eastern Sociological Society, 2007-present
International Commission on History of Meteorology, 2008-present
PRIOR RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2001-2003
Research Assistant, “Measuring Aesthetic Experience,” funded by the David and
Lucile Packard Foundation, Professor Colm O’Muircheartaigh, Cultural Policy
Center, University of Chicago
1998-2001
Research Assistant/Project Coordinator, “Transition to Work,” funded by the
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Professor Barbara Schneider, National Opinion
Research Center, University of Chicago
LANGUAGES
Greek (native), German (fluent), French (reading and writing), Spanish (reading)
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REFERENCES
Upon request.