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Sarah S. Richardson

Professor of the History of Science and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

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  • Sarah S. Richardson is Professor of the History of Science and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. A historian and philosopher of science, Richardson is a leading scholar of gender and science whose work argues for conceptual rigor and social responsibility in scientific research on sex, gender, sexuality, and reproduction. She directs the Harvard GenderSci Lab, a collaborative, interdisciplinary research lab dedicated to generating concepts,...

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Recent Publications

  • Sex Contextualism
  • The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects
  • Sex Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality Vary Across US Racial Groups
  • The intersection of Black women, COVID, and death rates: The narrative about sex differences and COVID-19 overshadows alarming facts
  • Socially Relevant Variables In US State COVID-19 Surveillance Reporting: A Report Card
  • First Authorship Gender Gap in the Geosciences
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Sarah S. RichardsonPhoto by Tony Rinaldo

The Maternal Imprint

Postgenomics: Perspectives on Biology After the Genome, ed. Sarah S. Richardson and Hallam Stevens

Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age

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