Sandra
Harding is a Professor of Education and Women's Studies at the University of
California, Los Angeles.She is a philosopher, and taught for two decades at the University of Delaware before joining UCLA in 1996.
At UCLA she directed the UCLA Center for the Study of Women for 5 years, and currently co-edits Signs: Journal
of Women in Culture and Society. Professor Harding is a pioneer in the fields of feminist theory and the philosophy
of science, and the author or editor of a dozen books and special journal issues, including Feminism and Methodology:
Social Science Issues (1987), Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking From Women's Lives (1991), The
'Racial' Economy of Science: Toward a Democratic Future (1993), Science and Other Cultures: Issues in Philosophies
of Science & Technology (2003), and The Feminist Standpoint Reader: Intellectual and Political Controversies (2003).
She has lectured at over 200 universities and conferences around the world and has been a Visiting Professor at the
University of Amsterdam, the University of Costa Rica, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. She has been
a consultant to several United Nations organizations including the Pan-American Health Organization, UNESCO, the U.N. Development Fund
for Women, and the U.N. Commission on Science and Technology for Development.
