Sara P. Díaz

Dr. Sara P. Díaz teaches courses on gender, race, and sexuality in the US, feminism and science, and women and the environment. Her research focuses on the complex relationships between science, gender, race, and the politics of human difference. Dr. Díaz’ scholarship builds on U.S. third world feminist theories and employs feminist cultural studies methods to examine the intellectual survival strategies used by women of color scientists. Her other scholarly interests include gender, race and twentieth-century science; 20th Century US history, feminist research ethics; feminist epistemologies; feminist environmental justice; feminist pedagogy, and mixed race studies. 

Dr. Díaz’ current book project, Roger Arliner Young: Doing Science from the Back of the Bus, is a comprehensive study of the life of the first black woman to earn a PhD in zoology, Roger Arliner Young.