Sandra Harding
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Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521
Sandra Harding
Distinguished Research Professor
Sandra Harding is a Distinguished Research Professor from UCLA. She has authored or edited seventeen books and special journal issues on topics in feminist and postcolonial epistemology, philosophy of science, and methodology. She co-edited Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 2000-05. Recently she has helped to co-found Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society. She has consulted to the Pan American Health Organization, UNIFEM, the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development, and UNESCO. She has held visiting appointments at the University of Costa Rica, the University of Amsterdam, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), and the Philosophy Department of Michigan State University.
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Titles and Positions
- Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Education and the Department of Women and Gender Studies
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
- 1989. Elected to membership in Sigma Xi.
- 1990. Woman Philosopher of the Year, Eastern Division Society for Women in Philosophy.
- 2000-05. Co-editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.
- 2007. Awarded The Douglass (College) Society Membership.
- 2007-08. Appointed as a Phi Beta Kappa National Lecturer.
- 2009. Received American Education Research Association (AERA) Award for Distinguished Contributions to Gender Equity in Education Research.
- 2011. Appointed Distinguished Affiliate Professor of Philosophy, Michigan State University, East Lansing
- 2012. Appointed Distinguished Professor of Education and Gender Studies. UCLA
- 2013. Awarded John Desmond Bernal Prize of Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S). (This is 4S’s highest award. Among earlier awardees are Robert Merton, Thomas Kuhn, Mary Douglas, and Joseph Needham.)
Education
- Ph.D., Philosophy, New York University
- B.A., Douglass College of Rutgers University
Select Publications
- Objectivity and Diversity: Another Logic of Scientific Research. University of Chicago Press 2015
- Ed, The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader. Duke University Press, 2011.
- The Science Question in Feminism. Cornell University Press, 1986.