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: Helen Longino and the Social Dimensions of Science. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2027.
Richardson, Sarah S., Heidi Grasswick, Carla Fehr, and Michael R. Dietrich, eds. Interactions: Helen Longino and the Social Dimensions of Science. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2027.
2026
Reiches, Meredith W., Marina DiMarco, Katharine M. N. Lee, Madeleine S. Pape, Sheree Bekker, Marion Boulicault, Ann Caroline Danielsen, and Sarah S. Richardson. “Does Menstrual Cycle Tracking Enhance Female Athlete Health and Performance? Evaluating Five Implicit Assumptions of an Emerging Paradigm”. Social Science & Medicine 408 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119790.
Reiches, Meredith W., Marina DiMarco, Katharine M. N. Lee, Madeleine S. Pape, Sheree Bekker, Marion Boulicault, Ann Caroline Danielsen, and Sarah S. Richardson. “Does Menstrual Cycle Tracking Enhance Female Athlete Health and Performance? Evaluating Five Implicit Assumptions of an Emerging Paradigm”. Social Science & Medicine 408 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119790.
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). https://doi.org/10.1086/738995.
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). https://doi.org/10.1086/738995.
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).
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. “The Extent of Gender Sex Variables Included in Clinical Algorithms across Medical Specialties”. Health Affairs 45, no. 7 (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. “The Extent of Gender Sex Variables Included in Clinical Algorithms across Medical Specialties”. Health Affairs 45, no. 7 (2026).
Einstein, Gillian, Louise Pilote, Geert De Vries, Sarah S. Richardson, Nancy Forger, Mateja Perović, Sofia Ahmed, et al. “Sex & Gender Science: Integrating the Social With the Biological”. Biology of Sex Differences, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13293-026-00977-8.
Einstein, Gillian, Louise Pilote, Geert De Vries, Sarah S. Richardson, Nancy Forger, Mateja Perović, Sofia Ahmed, et al. “Sex & Gender Science: Integrating the Social With the Biological”. Biology of Sex Differences, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13293-026-00977-8.
