Sarah S. Richardson
Sarah Richardson is Aramont Professor of the History of Science and Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University, where she has taught since 2010. Her courses include gender and science, feminist science studies, interdisciplinary research methods in gender studies, bias, hype, and objectivity in science, heredity and reproduction, postgenomics, medical management of the female body, and sex, gender, and evolution. An expert in the history and philosophy of the sciences of sex, gender, sexuality, and reproduction, she also writes and teaches about race...
Recent Publications
Forthcoming
Richardson, Sarah S., Heidi Grasswick, Carla Fehr, and Michael R. Dietrich, eds. Interactions: Feminism, Science, and Knowledge – Engagements With the Philosophy of Helen Longino. University of Pittsburgh Press, n.d.
Richardson, Sarah S., Heidi Grasswick, Carla Fehr, and Michael R. Dietrich, eds. Interactions: Feminism, Science, and Knowledge – Engagements With the Philosophy of Helen Longino. University of Pittsburgh Press, n.d.
Davis, Seetha H., Ann Caroline Danielsen, Ivan Yi-Fan Hsiao, Kendra K. Albert, Maggie K. Delano, Carmel Shachar, Sarah S. Richardson, David S. Jones, and Nancy Krieger. “Exploring the Inclusion of Gender Sex in Clinical Algorithms: An Analysis of 602 Existing Tools”. Health Affairs, 2026.
Davis, Seetha H., Ann Caroline Danielsen, Ivan Yi-Fan Hsiao, Kendra K. Albert, Maggie K. Delano, Carmel Shachar, Sarah S. Richardson, David S. Jones, and Nancy Krieger. “Exploring the Inclusion of Gender Sex in Clinical Algorithms: An Analysis of 602 Existing Tools”. Health Affairs, 2026.
2026
Marsella, Jamie, Marina DiMarco, Abigail Higgins, Sarah S. Richardson, and Joseph Dov Bruch. “Investment Feminism and Women’s Health”. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 51, no. 3 (2026).
Marsella, Jamie, Marina DiMarco, Abigail Higgins, Sarah S. Richardson, and Joseph Dov Bruch. “Investment Feminism and Women’s Health”. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 51, no. 3 (2026).
Gompers, Annika, Tamara Rushovich, Sarah S. Richardson, and Katharine M. N. Lee. “Exploring the Contributions of Gendered Social Factors to Sex Disparities in Adverse Drug Events”. Women’s Health Issues 36, no. 2 (2026).
Gompers, Annika, Tamara Rushovich, Sarah S. Richardson, and Katharine M. N. Lee. “Exploring the Contributions of Gendered Social Factors to Sex Disparities in Adverse Drug Events”. Women’s Health Issues 36, no. 2 (2026).
2025
Richardson, Sarah S. “Sex and the Riddle of Variability”. Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology 17, no. 1 (2025). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3998/ptpbio.5492.
Richardson, Sarah S. “Sex and the Riddle of Variability”. Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology 17, no. 1 (2025). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3998/ptpbio.5492.
Ichikawa, Kelsey, Marion Boulicault, Alex Thinius, Marina DiMarco, Audrey R. Murchland, Ben Maldonado, Abigail S. Higgins, and Sarah S. Richardson. “Sex in the Medical Machine: How Algorithms Can Entrench Bioessentialism in Precision Medicine”. Big Data and Society 12, no. 4 (2025).
Ichikawa, Kelsey, Marion Boulicault, Alex Thinius, Marina DiMarco, Audrey R. Murchland, Ben Maldonado, Abigail S. Higgins, and Sarah S. Richardson. “Sex in the Medical Machine: How Algorithms Can Entrench Bioessentialism in Precision Medicine”. Big Data and Society 12, no. 4 (2025).
