Sarah S. Richardson

Sarah Richardson is a professor of the history of science and of studies of women, gender, and sexuality at Harvard University and a historian and philosopher of science who studies the sciences of sex, gender, sexuality, and reproduction. Richardson is the author of Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome and has published two edited volumes, Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age and Postgenomics: Perspectives on Biology after the Genome. Richardson directs the Harvard GenderSci Lab, a collaborative, interdisciplinary research lab dedicated to generating feminist concepts, methods, and theories for biomedical research on sex and gender.