Sandra Harding, a former distinguished professor of education and gender studies, died March 5. She was 89. Internationally recognized for developing “standpoint theory” – which frames science as shaped by cultural and social contexts rather than as purely objective – Harding’s work critiqued classic academic theories that often overlooked the impacts of race, gender and ethnicity on knowledge production and the practice of science. Read more...

Photo: Sandra Harding, a former distinguished professor of education and gender studies, is pictured. Harding died March 5 at age 89. (Courtesy of Emily Harding-Morick)