OEB In Society Seminar: Sarah S. Richardson
Date and Time
December 11, 2025
03:30PM - 04:30PM EST
Location
Biological Labs, 1080, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Sarah S. Richardson
Aramont Professor of the History of Science and Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Harvard University
Sex Contextualism in Practice
Abstract: A contextualist approach to sex-related biology offers an alternative to binary sex essentialist approaches to research design and interpretation. Professor Richardson's talk introduces sex contextualism as a framework to support accountable, rigorous, precise research on sex-related variables that works to enhance health equity.
Host: OEB DIB