Sandra G. Harding papers (MS.2017.002)

Biographical / Historical

Sandra G. Harding (1935-), Distinguished Research Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, is a scholar of feminist and postcolonial theory, philosophy and science, and epistemology.

Harding earned her PhD in Philosophy from New York University and graduated with a B.A. from Douglass College of Rutgers University. She taught at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1992-2014 and served as the Director of the Center for the Study of Women at UCLA from 1996-2000. Previously, Harding taught in the philosophy department at the University of Delaware from 1976-1996 and was the Director of Women's Studies from 1985-1991 and 1992-1993. She served as the Co-Editor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society from 2000-2005.

In 1990, the Easter Division of the Society for Women in Philosophy honored Harding as Women Philosopher of the Year. In 2009 she received the American Education Research Association (AERA) award for Distinguished Contributions to Gender Equity in Education Research. Harding was awarded the John Desmond Bernal Prize by the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) in 2013.