GenderSci Lab Affiliates
Lab Management
Sarah Richardson
Lab Director (she/they)
Sarah S. Richardson is the Aramont Professor of the History of Science and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University and directs the Harvard GenderSci Lab. A historian and philosopher of science, Richardson is a leading scholar of gender and science whose work argues for conceptual rigor and social responsibility in scientific research on sex, gender, sexuality, and reproduction. Richardson serves on the Standing Committees for Degrees in Social Studies and for the Mind, Brain, and Behavior Interfaculty Initiative at Harvard.
Richardson 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. She has published two edited volumes, Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age and Postgenomics: Perspectives on Biology After the Genome, articles in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, BioSocieties, the Hastings Report, and Biology and Philosophy, and commentaries in Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Journal of Neuroscience. Her work has also appeared in popular forums such as Slate, the New York Times, and the Boston Globe.
Richardson's research has been supported by the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the American Association of University Women. She has served on the Governing Board of the International Association for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology and is a member of the editorial boards of Signs and Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
You can contact her at srichard@fas.harvard.edu
Atlas Sanogo
Lab Manager (he/they)
Atlas Sanogo is the current GenderSci Lab Manager. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 2024 with a B.A in Psychology and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. He has previously conducted research on stereotypes about nonbinary people, implicit race bias, transgender youth mental health, and healthy lifestyle instruction for populations with severe mental illness.
He loves bringing color and queer joy to every aspect of his life! Outside of work, he enjoys skateboarding, shopping, making bracelets, going to concerts, reading, and meditating.
You can reach him at atlas_sanogo@fas.harvard.edu
Marion Boulicault
Director of Interdisciplinary Research & Community (she/her)
Marion Boulicault is a feminist philosopher of science, and is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Edinburgh. Her research analyzes the socio-political dimensions of scientific measurement practices. She has a PhD in Philosophy from MIT, and an MPhil in the History & Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge.
As Director of Interdisciplinary Research & Community at the Harvard GenderSci Lab, Marion explores and theorizes the opportunities, challenges and conceptual questions that arise when working across disciplines. In collaboration with the other Lab Directors, she leads research projects that integrate multiple skill sets, backgrounds and perspectives. Her role also involves a vigorous commitment to mentorship, public outreach and cross-institutional collaboration. Together with lab colleagues, Marion's work has been published in journals including Nature, Human Fertility and Psychological Science, as well as in public media venues, such as Slate and The Guardian.
Meredith (Max) Reiches
(she/her)
Meredith Reiches is a founding member of the Gender and Science Research Group, precursor to the GenderSci Lab. She is currently an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a candidate for rabbinic ordination at Hebrew College. Reiches works at the intersection of evolutionary biology and gender and race ideology. She asks not only how human bodies grow and reproduce, but also how human histories and power relations structure what kinds of questions--and answers--researchers and publics are able to formulate and metabolize. Topics include: How do adolescent bodies navigate the transition from growth to reproductive function? How do social identities including gender and race become embodied during adolescence? How do contemporary, normative social systems like heterosexuality shape evolutionary narratives of human origins?Reiches’s peer-reviewed work has been published in journals including the American Journal of Human Biology; Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health; and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Together with lab colleagues, she has written for wider audiences on platforms including The New York Times, Slate, and The Guardian. You can think of her as the Labbi.
Katharine Lee
Scientific Director (she/her)
Katie is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Tulane University. Prior to that she was a postdoctoral scholar in the Division of Public Health Sciences at Washington University School of Medicine. She studies women’s health using theoretical perspectives derived from feminist biology, combining technical experience to optimize data collection and manipulation with anthropology to situate that data in social and historical contexts. She holds a PhD in Anthropology with a minor in Gender & Women’s Studies (UIUC), MS in Business Administration (Texas A&M-Texarkana), and BS in Biomedical Engineering (Tulane University).
Tamara Rushovich
Lead for Quantitative Methods & Collaboration (she/her)
Tamara Rushovich is a postdoctoral fellow at the Urban Health Collaborative at Drexel University. She received her PhD studying social epidemiology in the Population Health Sciences program at Harvard University in May 2024. She is interested in using theory and methods from epidemiology, sociology, and feminist and queer studies to understand how structural factors such as racism, sexism, and heterosexism influence health. Prior to starting at Harvard, she worked as an epidemiologist at the Chicago Department of Public Health. She received her BA and MPH from the University of Michigan in Sociology and Epidemiology respectively.
Alexander Borsa
Mentorship Maven (he/him)
Alexander Borsa is a PhD Candidate in Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University, on the Sociology track. He is interested in the construction and management of sexual subjectivities, including how the intertwined forces of finance and biomedicine work to produce these formations. In addition to research, Alex has worked on public health issues affecting NYC for nearly a decade, including HIV prevention and treatment, MPOX, and LGBTQ health.
Annika Gompers
Co-Director of Engaged Communications (she/her)
Annika Gompers is a PhD student in Epidemiology at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health. She is interested using an intersectional lens to study the social and structural determinants of gendered inequities in health and healthcare. Prior to starting at Emory, she worked as a data analyst in the OB/GYN Department at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She received an MPhil in Health, Medicine, and Society from the University of Cambridge and an AB in Integrative Biology with a secondary in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality from Harvard College.
Lab Members
Patricia Homan (she/her)
Visiting Scholar
Patricia (Trish) Homan is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Research and Strategic Initiatives for the Public Health Program at Florida State University. Her research focuses on developing theory and measurement for structural sexism, structural racism, and other forms of structural oppression, and examining how these forces shape health in the United States.
Kelsey Ichikawa (she/her)
Kelsey is a PhD student in History of Science at Harvard, with an interest in the intersections of surveillance, carcerality, computing, and care infrastructures. In her past lives, she graduated with an A.B. summa cum laude in Neurobiology and Philosophy, worked as the GSL lab manager, and conducted research in science and technology studies, social and systems neuroscience, and moral philosophy.
Joseph Dov Bruch (he/him)
Director of Healthcare and Finance Research Team
Joseph Dov Bruch is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Chicago. He also directs the Health Care Finance Team at the Harvard GenderSci lab. Broadly, his research is focuses on financial systems, policies, and institutions and their influence on population health and health care delivery. Within the GenderSci lab, he examines the role of financial firms and investments in the “women’s health industry,” with a focus on venture capital firms and the femtech industry as well as private equity’s influence in women’s health. He is interested in feminist frameworks to draw links between capitalism and health.
Joseph graduated from Harvard University with a Ph.D. in Population Health Sciences and a Master’s Degree in Biostatistics. As a social epidemiologist, Joseph attends to the ways social structures and policies impact health and health equity.
Madeleine Pape (she/her)
Madeleine is a Maître Assistante FNS Ambizione at the University of Lausanne’s Institute of Social Sciences. Following her career as an Olympic athlete, she obtained her PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research examines the epistemic politics that shape how “sex” is defined in national legislation and policies for inclusion in sport and biomedical research, including the role of feminist mobilization.
Ben Maldonado (he/him)
Ben Maldonado is a PhD candidate in the the History of Science department. He is interested broadly in histories of biology, medicine, and the body, and his dissertation focuses on the history of biological age calculations and longevity predictions over the twentieth century. He has also worked on the histories of eugenics and sexology. Prior to coming to Harvard, he did his undergraduate work at Stanford University where he studied history.
Ann Caroline Danielsen (she/her)
Ann Caroline Danielsen is a PhD student in Population Health Sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health, from which she received her MPH in 2021. Her interest lies in exploring how interdisciplinary, critical approaches to public health can be mobilized to improve health equity - with a specific focus on gender. Prior to coming to Harvard, she received a bachelor in Biomedical Science from King’s College London and a master’s in History of Science, Technology and Medicine from the University of Manchester. In between different “waves” of Academia, she worked at the European CDC, in the private sector, and in Multiple Sclerosis clinical research.
Mia Miyagi (they/she)
Mia is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Computational Molecular Biology at Brown University. She is interested in disentangling the genomic signals of gender-biased and sex-biased demographic events and exploring how gendered effects can create signs of sex differences in genetic data. Previously, she received her PhD in Organismic and Evolutionary biology from Harvard.
Jamie Marsella (she/her)
Jamie Marsella is a doctoral candidate in the depart of the History of Science at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the intersection between race, gender, and medicine in the development of women and children’s public health programming. She holds an MA from the University of Chicago and a BA from the University of Portland.
Abigail Higgins (she/her)
Abigail Higgins is a PhD student in the History of Science Department at Harvard University. She is interested in the history of medicine, health, and the environment in the 20th and 21st centuries. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with an A.B. in History and Science and a secondary in Global Health and Health Policy. Prior to joining the Ph.D. program, Abigail worked in the healthcare and life sciences industry.
Marina DiMarco (she/her)
Co-Director of Engaged Communications
Marina DiMarco is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. She works on the ethics, epistemology, and politics of the health and life sciences. She is especially interested in big data biology, biotechnology, and biosocial science.
Maayan Sudai (she/her)
Maayan Sudai is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Haifa and a graduate of Harvard Law School, where she specialized in health law, bioethics, and Science and Technology (STS) studies. Her research focuses on the legal classifications of sex and gender across various contexts and periods, as well as the intersection of law and science in shaping policies and legal frameworks. Maayan’s published work delves into the complex relationship between legal and scientific conceptions of sex and gender, addressing legal challenges in areas such as bathrooms, sports, and healthcare for intersex and transgender communities.
Alex Thinius
Alex is a philosopher and socio-cultural researcher, theorizing socio-cultural change, especially in concepts of sex and gender. Alex completed a PhD titled Genders as Genres at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. Since then, Alex has worked at the Universeit van Amsterdam, Harvard University, and RU Nijmegen. Their postdoc research studies pluralist and dynamic concepts of sex-gender in the life-sciences.
Emily Dore (she/her)
Emily C. Dore is a postdoctoral research fellow at the SPHERE Center at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. Her research examines macro-level determinants of health with a goal of informing policies that decrease health inequities including the long-term health impacts of economic policy exposure in childhood and the role of state-level structural sexism on health care use.
Hannah Niederriter (she/her)
Hannah is a pre-med student at Harvard College studying Neuroscience and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. She is interested in social and structural determinants of mental health and healthcare inequities. Previously, she conducted wet lab PTSD research at McLean Hospital and clinical autism and mental health research at Hiroshima University. She hopes to pursue a career in forensic psychiatry.
Lauren Rothenberg Aalami (she/her)
Lauren is a graduate research fellow at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where she is working on a machine learning-generated index for expressing abdominal aortic aneurysm progression and rupture risk that accounts for sex-linked anatomic variation with the Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging (AIMI). Her research explores the role of sex and gender in cardiovascular disease (CVD) outcomes, the treatment of sex and gender in best-practice guidelines for CVD management, and the morbidity and mortality consequences of diagnostic and operative thresholds that do not account for sex-linked variation.
Aya Evron (she/her)
National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Scholar
Aya Evron is a philosopher of biology and Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender and Science at the Harvard GenderSci Lab. Her research focuses on the fundamental biological definition of sex, namely gametic dimorphism, seeking to analyze and characterize whether, where, and how sex categories figure in biological explanations. At the GenderSci Lab, she is working with PI Sarah Richardson on a National Science Foundation-funded project entitled “Pluralism in Biological Models of Sex,” testing, extending, and deepening sex contextualist (Richardson 2022) frameworks for laboratory-based research. Prior to that, she was a postdoctoral fellow at The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University. She holds a PhD in philosophy from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.