#  Sarah Richardson 

Director of Graduate Studies

Aramont Professor of the History of Science

Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

 

 

 



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[Sarah S. Richardson](http://scholar.harvard.edu/srichard) is Professor of the History of Science and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. She is jointly appointed in the Department of the [*History of Science*](http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hsdept/) and the Committee on Degrees in [*Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality*](/). Richardson’s research uses the tools of history, philosophy, and social studies of science to analyze how scientists, in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, understand sex and gender.

Richardson is the author of *Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome* (2013) and *The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects* (2021). She has published two edited volumes, *Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age* (2008) and *Postgenomics: Perspectives on Biology After the Genome* (2015), articles in *Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society*, *Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, BioSocieties, The Hastings Report*, and *Biology and Philosophy*, and commentaries in *Nature, PNAS,* and the *Journal of Neuroscience*. Her work has also appeared in popular forums such as *Slate*,*CNN.com,* and *The Boston Globe*.

Richardson’s research has been supported by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the American Association of University Women. She is a member of the Governing Board of the International Association for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology and an Associate Editor at *Signs*.

##### Courses Taught in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

*CULTR&BLF 61 Gender and Science: From Marie Curie to Gamergate*

*GENED 1127 Gender and Science*

*HISTSCI 251 Feminist Science Studies*

*WOMGEN 98 Tutorial - Junior Year: Research and Methods*

*WOMGEN 1300 Approaches to Research and Writing in WGS*

*WOMGEN 1421 Medical Management of the Female Body*

*WGS 2000 Introduction to WGS: Graduate Proseminar*

*WOMGEN 2010 Science, Nature, and Gender*



 

 

 





 

 

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