Diana Rhoten

Diana Rhoten is a program director in the Office of Cyberinfrastructure at the National Science Foundation in Washington, DC, where she is responsible for the areas of Virtual Organizations and Cyber-Learning & Workforce Development. In addition, Dr. Rhoten is the director of the Knowledge Institutions program at the Social Science Research Council in New York, NY. Dr. Rhoten's current work concerns the study of interdisciplinary and collaborative practices in science.

She is particularly interested in the implications that geographically distributed and scientifically diverse networks pose for traditional research questions and institutions—particularly in light of the many emerging technological capacities before us. Recent examples of her writing can be found in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Science, and Research Policy. She is also currently co-editing a book tentatively titled The Transformation of Public Research Universities with Dr. Craig Calhoun. In addition to publishing scholarly works on the topic, Dr. Rhoten works with various academic and non-academic organizations on the design, implementation, and assessment of new organizational forms of research and training. For her work in this area, Dr. Rhoten was selected as a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer (July 2005-June 2007), an award that honors individuals at the leading edge of science.

Dr. Rhoten’s earlier research in the international arena takes up comparative analyses of local interpretations and implementations of global social and educational policies in North and South America. Publications related to this earlier work can be found in journals such as the Journal of Education Policy and Comparative Education Review as well as in The New Accountability: High Schools and High-Stakes Testing and Las Reformas Educativas en la Década de 1990: Un Estudio Comparado de Argentina, Chile y Uruguay. Dr/ Rhoten has a Ph.D. in social sciences and educational policy and an M.A. in sociology from Stanford University, as well as an M.Ed. in international development education from Harvard University and an A.B. in international relations from Brown University.