Join us for our Science and Nature Lecture featuring Professor Sarah Richardson. This program is in person at the Mercantile Library, and also available virtually via Crowdcast.
Date
Sep 9, 2021
Time
6 – 8 pm EDT
Location
Mercantile Library and online via Crowdcast
Sarah Richardson is Professor of the History of Science and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University, is a historian and philosopher of science who studies the sciences of sex, gender, sexuality, and reproduction. Richardson directs the Harvard GenderSci Lab, a collaborative, interdisciplinary research lab dedicated to generating concepts, methods, and theories for biomedical research on sex and gender.
Richardson is the author of Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome, a history of scientific research on the human sex chromosomes. Her latest book, The Maternal Imprint, explores a century of scientific theories of maternal-fetal effects.
