Sarah S. Richardson
{{Short description|Professor of history of science and gender studies}}
{{Other people|Sarah Richardson}}
{{Infobox academic
| name = Sarah S. Richardson
| image = Sarah richardson photo by jody christopherson-2.jpg
| alt = Sarah Richardson Headshot
| caption = Sarah Richardson, May 2021
| education = Columbia University (BA)
Stanford University (PhD)
| title = Professor of the History of Science & Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
| thesis_title = Gendering the Genome: Sex Chromosomes in Twentieth Century Genetics
| thesis_url = https://www.proquest.com/docview/305009314
| thesis_year = 2009
| doctoral_advisor = Helen Longino
| discipline = Philosopher and Historian of Science
| sub_discipline = Feminist Science Studies, Science of Sex
| notableworks = The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects
Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome
| website = https://scholar.harvard.edu/srichard
| awards = Adele E. Clarke Book Award (2024)https://histsci.fas.harvard.edu/news/richardson-receive-2024-adele-e-clarke-book-award
}}
Sarah S. Richardson is an American philosopher and historian who is a professor at the Department of the
History of Science at Harvard University.{{cite web |title=Department of History of Science |url=https://histsci.fas.harvard.edu/people/sarah-s-richardson |website=Harvard University}} She is the author of The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects and Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome.
Career
Richardson earned her B.A. in philosophy from Columbia University in 2002, and her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2009. She was the Five College Assistant Professor of Feminist Science Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 2009 until 2010. In 2010 she would join the faculty of Harvard University, where she has remained since, earning tenure in 2017.{{Cite web |title=Sarah S. Richardson |url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/srichard/home |access-date=2023-05-04 |website=scholar.harvard.edu |language=en}}
Research
Richardson is a historian and philosopher of science, and her research and scholastic work has largely centered on feminist science studies as well as more general intersections of gender and science. Her 2013 book Sex Itself, examined cultural norms around gender.{{Cite journal |last=M'charek |first=A. |date=2014-02-14 |title=YseX Is a Matter of Concern Rather Than a Matter of Fact |url=https://www.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/science.1249293 |journal=Science |language=en |volume=343 |issue=6172 |pages=731–732 |doi=10.1126/science.1249293 |bibcode=2014Sci...343..731M |s2cid=51600444 |issn=0036-8075}}
Selected publications
- {{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173299300 |title=Revisiting race in a genomic age |date=2008 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |others=Barbara A. Koenig, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Sarah S. Richardson |isbn=978-0-8135-4323-9 |location=New Brunswick, N.J. |oclc=173299300}}Reviews of Revisiting race in a genomic age
- {{Cite journal |last=Randall |first=Vernellia |date=2012 |title=Review of Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jamerethnhist.31.4.0126 |journal=Journal of American Ethnic History |volume=31 |issue=4 |pages=126–127 |doi=10.5406/jamerethnhist.31.4.0126 |jstor=10.5406/jamerethnhist.31.4.0126 |issn=0278-5927}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Duster |first=Troy |date=2009 |editor-last=Koenig |editor-first=Barbara A. |editor2-last=Lee |editor2-first=Sandra Soo Jin |editor3-last=Richardson |editor3-first=Sarah S. |title=Debating Reality and Relevance |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20494027 |journal=Science |volume=324 |issue=5931 |pages=1144–1145 |doi=10.1126/science.1174523 |jstor=20494027 |bibcode=2009Sci...324.1144D |s2cid=154228509 |issn=0036-8075}}
- {{Citation |last=Richardson |first=Sarah S. |title=Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome |chapter=Sex Itself |date=2013 |chapter-url=http://dx.doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226084718.003.0001 |pages=1–22 |access-date=2023-05-04 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |doi=10.7208/chicago/9780226084718.003.0001 |isbn=978-0-226-32561-3}}Reviews of Sex Itself
- {{Cite journal |last=Milam |first=Erika Lorraine |date=2014 |title=Review of Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43863380 |journal=Journal of the History of Biology |volume=47 |issue=2 |pages=329–331 |doi=10.1007/s10739-014-9380-5 |jstor=43863380 |s2cid=88236842 |issn=0022-5010}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Richmond |first=Marsha L. |date=2015 |title=Review of Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/682817 |journal=Isis |volume=106 |issue=2 |pages=496–497 |doi=10.1086/682817 |jstor=10.1086/682817 |issn=0021-1753|url-access=subscription }}
- {{Cite journal |last=Haig |first=David |date=2014 |title=Review of Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/678648 |journal=The Quarterly Review of Biology |volume=89 |issue=4 |pages=399–400 |doi=10.1086/678648 |jstor=10.1086/678648 |issn=0033-5770}}
- {{Cite journal |last1=Richardson |first1=Sarah S. |last2=Daniels |first2=Cynthia R. |last3=Gillman |first3=Matthew W. |last4=Golden |first4=Janet |last5=Kukla |first5=Rebecca |last6=Kuzawa |first6=Christopher |last7=Rich-Edwards |first7=Janet |date=2014 |title=Society: Don't blame the mothers |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=512 |issue=7513 |pages=131–132 |doi=10.1038/512131a |pmid=25119222 |bibcode=2014Natur.512..131R |issn=0028-0836|doi-access=free }}
- {{Cite journal |last1=Richardson |first1=Sarah S. |last2=Reiches |first2=Meredith |last3=Shattuck-Heidorn |first3=Heather |last4=LaBonte |first4=Michelle Lynne |last5=Consoli |first5=Theresa |date=2015-11-03 |title=Focus on preclinical sex differences will not address women's and men's health disparities |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |language=en |volume=112 |issue=44 |pages=13419–13420 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1516958112 |issn=0027-8424 |pmc=4640753 |pmid=26534989 |doi-access=free }}
- {{Cite book |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1186332435 |title=Postgenomics: Perspectives on biology after the genome |publisher=Duke University Press |year=2015 |isbn=978-0-8223-7544-9 |editor-last=Richardson |editor-first=Sarah S. |oclc=1186332435 |editor-last2=Stevens |editor-first2=Hallam}}Reviews of Postgenomics
- {{Cite journal |last=Schnittker |first=Jason |date=2016 |title=Review of Postgenomics: Perspectives on Biology after the Genome |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43996627 |journal=Contemporary Sociology |volume=45 |issue=4 |pages=497–498 |doi=10.1177/0094306116653953aaa |jstor=43996627 |s2cid=89309139 |issn=0094-3061|doi-access=free }}
- {{Cite journal |last=Link |first=Adrianna |date=2018 |title=Review of Postgenomics: Perspectives on Biology after the Genome |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44980455 |journal=Journal of the History of Biology |volume=51 |issue=4 |pages=891–895 |doi=10.1007/s10739-018-9545-8 |jstor=44980455 |s2cid=246619218 |issn=0022-5010}}
- {{Cite book |last=Richardson |first=Sarah S. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1240772044 |title=The maternal imprint : the contested science of maternal-fetal effects |date=2021 |isbn=978-0-226-54477-9 |location=Chicago |oclc=1240772044}}Reviews for The Maternal Imprint
- {{Cite journal |last=Lagerwey |first=M D |date=August 2022 |title=The maternal imprint: the contested science of maternal-fetal effects |journal=Choice (Middletown) |volume=59 |issue=12 |pages=1449}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Schmidt |first=Susanne |date=2023-03-01 |title=The Prenatal Gaze |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/723593 |journal=Isis |language=en |volume=114 |issue=1 |pages=189–192 |doi=10.1086/723593 |s2cid=257051256 |issn=0021-1753}}
- {{Cite news |date=7 January 2022 |title=Mutters Beitrag, keiner sonst?: Sarah Richardson wirft einen kritischen Blick auf die Forschungen zu den Effekten mütterlicher Prägung des heranwachsenden Fötus. |language=de |pages=10 |work=Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung; Frankfurt [Frankfurt]. |via=ProQuest}}
References
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External links
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Category:21st-century American philosophers
Category:Harvard University faculty
Category:Columbia University alumni