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Steve Hoffman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. He is affiliated with the tri-campus graduate program on the St. George campus. Hoffman’s research bridges social theory, science and technology studies, cultural and political sociology, and critical disaster studies, focusing on the cultural politics of knowledge production.
His work includes a multi-year SSHRC Insight Grant-funded project, "Managing the Unimaginable: Knowledge Production, Prediction, and Anticipatory Technology among Toronto Area Disaster Management Professionals," which documents epistemic cultures in disaster management. He also explores how large-scale disasters like Fukushima Daiichi influence institutional change in energy policies across Germany and the United States.
- Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Disaster Preparedness, Academic Capitalism, Ethnography, Social Constructionism, Technoscience
He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University and has published extensively in venues like Theory & Society, Science, Technology, & Human Values, and Social Studies of Science. Hoffman’s pedagogical philosophy emphasizes "learning by mistakes," fostering curiosity and speculation in his courses on organizational sociology, science and technology, and environmental sociology.
