Anne Fausto-Sterling
Anne Fausto-Sterling
Nancy Duke Lewis Professor Emerita of Biology
Overview
Anne Fausto-Sterling is the Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Biology and Gender Studies in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Biochemistry at Brown University. She is past Chair of the Faculty Committee on Science & Technology Studies.
In addition to having served on the Brown faculty for more than 40 years, Anne Fausto-Sterling has been a visiting professor at a number of institutions in the US and abroad in departments of Biology, Medical Science, Gender Studies and Science Studies. A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, she has received grants and fellowships in both the sciences and the humanities.
Author of scientific publications in developmental genetics, gender studies and science studies, Professor. Fausto-Sterling has achieved recognition for works that challenge entrenched scientific beliefs while engaging with the general public.
Professor Fausto-Sterling's past laboratory work has included studies of the genetics of development in fruit flies and the developmental ecology of flatworms. Her current work applies dynamic systems theory to the study of human development. Professor Fausto-Sterling currently studies the emergence of gender differences in behavior in early childhood and the emergence of human sexuality.
A more detailed biography may be found in the Sept. 2005 issue of Current Biography or by searching for my public website: AnneFaustoS-------.c--
Brown Affiliations
Research Areas
early childhood development | gender | history of biology | race and gender in bone development | science and technology studies | sex | systems theory | theories of embodiment
On the Web
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| Joel, Daphna, Fausto-Sterling, Anne. "Beyond sex differences: new approaches for thinking about variation in brain structure and function." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 371, no. 1688, 2016, pp. 20150451. |
| Fausto-Sterling, Anne. "On the Critiques of the Concept of Sex." differences, vol. 27, no. 1, 2016, pp. 189-205. |
| Fausto-Sterling, Anne. "How else can we study sex differences in early infancy?." Dev Psychobiol, 2015, pp. n/a-n/a. |
| Fausto-Sterling, Anne. "Intersex: Concept of multiple sexes is not new." J. Geophys. Res., vol. 519, no. 7543, 2015, pp. 291-291. |
| Fausto-Sterling, Anne, Crews, David, Sung, Jihyun, García-Coll, Cynthia, Seifer, Ronald. "Multimodal sex-related differences in infant and in infant-directed maternal behaviors during months three through twelve of development." Developmental Psychology, vol. 51, no. 10, 2015, pp. 1351-66. |
| Fausto-Sterling, Anne, Touraille, Priscille. "Autour des critiques du concept de sexe. Entretien avec Anne Fausto-Sterling." gss, no. 12, 2014. |
| Ahl RE, Fausto-Sterling A, García-Coll C, Seifer R. "Gender and discipline in 5-12-month-old infants: a longitudinal study." Infant Behavior and Development, vol. 36, no. 2, 2013, pp. 199-209. |
| Sung, Jihyun, Fausto-Sterling, Anne, Garcia Coll, Cynthia, Seifer, Ronald. "The Dynamics of Age and Sex in the Development of Mother-Infant Vocal Communication Between 3 and 11 Months." Infancy, vol. 18, no. 6, 2013, pp. 1135-1158. |
| Fausto-Sterling, A. "Not Your Grandma's Genetics: Some Theoretical Notes." Psychology of Women Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 4, 2012, pp. 411-418. |
| Fausto-Sterling A, Coll CG, Lamarre M. "Sexing the baby: Part 1--What do we really know about sex differentiation in the first three years of life?." Social Science & Medicine, vol. 74, no. 11, 2012, pp. 1684-92. |
| Fausto-Sterling A, Coll CG, Lamarre M. "Sexing the baby: Part 2--Applying dynamic systems theory to the emergences of sex-related differences in infants and toddlers." Social Science & Medicine, vol. 74, no. 11, 2012, pp. 1693-702. |
| Fausto-Sterling A. "The dynamic development of gender variability." Journal of homosexuality, vol. 59, no. 3, 2012, pp. 398-421. |
| Fausto-Sterling, Anne. "A Review of “Sex Differences: Summarizing More Than a Century of Scientific Research”." Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health, vol. 14, no. 1, 2010, pp. 79-81. |
| Fausto-Sterling A. "The bare bones of race." Social Studies of Science, vol. 38, no. 5, 2008, pp. 657-94. |
| Fausto-Sterling, Anne. "Frameworks of desire." Daedalus, vol. 136, no. 2, 2007, pp. 47-57. |
| Braun L, Fausto-Sterling A, Fullwiley D, Hammonds EM, Nelson A, Quivers W, Reverby SM, Shields AE. "Racial categories in medical practice: how useful are they?." PLOS Medicine, vol. 4, no. 9, 2007, pp. e271. |
| Braun L, Fausto-Sterling A. "Science and technology studies: its relevance to medical education and the practice of medicine." Medicine and health, Rhode Island, vol. 89, no. 9, 2006, pp. 316-8. |
| Fausto-Sterling, Anne. "The case of the female orgasm: Bias in the science of evolution." J. Hist. Behav. Sci., vol. 42, no. 4, 2006, pp. 406-407. |
| Fausto‐Sterling, Anne. "The Bare Bones of Sex: Part 1—Sex and Gender." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 30, no. 2, 2005, pp. 1491-1527. |
| FAUSTO-STERLING, A. "Refashioning Race: DNA and the Politics of Health Care." differences, vol. 15, no. 3, 2004, pp. 1-37. |
| Gilbert SF, Fausto-Sterling A. "Educating for social responsibility: changing the syllabus of developmental biology." The International journal of developmental biology, vol. 47, no. 2-3, 2003, pp. 237-44. |
| Hull CL, Fausto-Sterling A. "How sexually dimorphic are we? Review and synthesis." American Journal of Human Biology, vol. 15, no. 1, 2003, pp. 112-5; author reply 115-6. |
| Fausto-Sterling A. "Science matters, culture matters." Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, vol. 46, no. 1, 2003, pp. 109-24. |
| Reumann M, Fausto-Sterling A. "Notions of heredity in the correspondence of Edwin Grant Conklin." Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, vol. 44, no. 3, 2001, pp. 414-25. |
| Phornphutkul C, Fausto-Sterling A, Gruppuso PA. "Gender self-reassignment in an XY adolescent female born with ambiguous genitalia." Pediatrics, vol. 106, no. 1 Pt 1, 2000, pp. 135-7. |
| Blackless M, Charuvastra A, Derryck A, Fausto-Sterling A, Lauzanne K, Lee E. "How sexually dimorphic are we? Review and synthesis." American Journal of Human Biology, vol. 12, no. 2, 2000, pp. 151-166. |
| Fausto-Sterling A. "The five sexes, revisited." The Sciences, vol. 40, no. 4, 2000, pp. 18-23. |
| Fausto-Sterling A. "On their own." Science, vol. 279, no. 5354, 1998, pp. 1113-4. |
| Fausto-Sterling, Anne. "Beyond Difference: A Biologist's Perspective." Journal of Social Issues, vol. 53, no. 2, 1997, pp. 233-258. |
| Fausto-Sterling A. "Science: the broader context." Science, vol. 273, no. 5279, 1996, pp. 1157-8. |
| Fausto-Sterling A. "Animals models for the development of human sexuality: a critical evaluation." Journal of homosexuality, vol. 28, no. 3-4, 1995, pp. 217-36. |
| Fausto-Sterling A, Balaban E. "Genetics and male sexual orientation." Science, vol. 261, no. 5126, 1993, pp. 1257; author reply 1259. |
| Fausto-Sterling A. "Life in the XY corral." Women's studies international forum, vol. 12, no. 3, 1989, pp. 319-31. |
| Fausto-Sterling A, Hsieh L. "In vitro culture of Drosophila imaginal disc cells: aggregation, sorting out, and differentiative abilities." Developmental Biology, vol. 120, no. 1, 1987, pp. 284-93. |
| Fausto-Sterling A, Muckenthaler FA, Hsieh L, Rosenblatt PL. "Some determinants of cellular adhesiveness in an embryonic cell line from Drosophila melanogaster." The Journal of experimental zoology, vol. 234, no. 1, 1985, pp. 47-55. |
| Fausto-Sterling A, Hsieh L. "The behavior during the initial phase of in vitro aggregation of dissociated imaginal disc cells from Drosophila melanogaster." Developmental Biology, vol. 100, no. 2, 1983, pp. 339-49. |
| Fausto-Sterling A, Smith-Schiess H. "Interactions between FUSED and ENGRAILED, Two Mutations Affecting Pattern Formation in DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER." Genetics, vol. 101, no. 1, 1982, pp. 71-80. |
| Muckenthaler FA, Fausto-Sterling A. "Normal and lectin-mediated aggregation in aDrosophila cell line." Wilhelm Roux's archives of developmental biology, vol. 190, no. 2, 1981, pp. 118-122. |
| Schaefer RE, Kidwell MG, Fausto-Sterling A. "Hybrid Dysgenesis in DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER: Morphological and Cytological Studies of Ovarian Dysgenesis." Genetics, vol. 92, no. 4, 1979, pp. 1141-52. |
| Fausto-Sterling A. "Pattern formation in the wing veins of the fused mutant (Drosophila melanogaster)." Developmental Biology, vol. 63, no. 2, 1978, pp. 358-69. |
| Fausto-Sterling A, Weiner AJ, Digan ME. "Analysis of a newly-isolated temperature sensitive maternal effect mutation of Drosophila melanogaster." The Journal of experimental zoology, vol. 200, no. 2, 1977, pp. 199-209. |
| Fausto-Sterling A. "Studies on the female sterile mutant rudimentary of Drosophila melanogaster. II. An analysis of aspartate transcarbamylase and dihydroorotase activities in wild-type and rudimentary strains." Biochemical genetics, vol. 15, no. 7-8, 1977, pp. 803-15. |
| Fausto-Sterling A, Hsieh L. "Studies on the female-sterile mutant rudimentary of Drosophila melanogaster. 1. An analysis of the rudimentary wing phenotype." Developmental Biology, vol. 51, no. 2, 1976, pp. 269-81. |
| Ellis HI, Levitt M, Fausto-Sterling A. "Cuban science." Science, vol. 186, no. 4170, 1974, pp. 1159. |
| Fausto-Sterling A, Zheutlin LM, Brown PR. "Rates of RNA synthesis during early embryogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster." Developmental Biology, vol. 40, no. 1, 1974, pp. 78-83. |
| Fausto-Sterling A. "On the timing and place of action during embryogenesis of the female-sterile mutants fused and rudimentary Drosophila melanogaster." Developmental Biology, vol. 26, no. 3, 1971, pp. 452-63. |
| Fausto-Sterling A. "Studies on the sterility phenotype of the pleiotropic mutant fused of Drosophila melanogaster." The Journal of experimental zoology, vol. 178, no. 3, 1971, pp. 343-50. |
Research
Research Overview
Professor Fausto-Sterling's work applies dynamic systems theory to the study of human development. Newspapers are awash with reports of genes for this or that complex human trait (obesity, alcoholism, homosexuality, gender differences in math and science). A great divide exists between people who accept biological explanations of human difference and those who reject biology in favor of social explanations. Her big ambition is to restructure dichotomous conversations--inside the academy, in public discourse, and ultimately in the framing of social policy--in order to enable an understanding of the inseparability of nature/nurture.
Research Statement
Professor Fausto-Sterling is applying dynamic systems theory to the study of human development. Newspapers are awash with reports of genes for this or that complex human trait (obesity, alcoholism, homosexuality, gender differences in math and science). A great divide exists between people who accept biological explanations of human difference and those who reject biology in favor of social explanations. My big ambition is to restructure dichotomous conversations--inside the academy, in public discourse, and ultimately in the framing of social policy--in order to enable an understanding of the inseparability of nature/nurture. Dynamic systems theory permits us to understand how cultural difference becomes bodily difference. Professor Fausto-Sterling's currently studies the emergence of gender differences in behavior in early childhood.
Funded Research
1972-1974 General Research Support Grant from Brown University, "Oogenesis and the Control of Early Embryogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster". $10,000
1974-1977 National Science Foundation Grant No. BMS-19691, "Control of Embryogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster." $30,000
1974-1977 National Foundation--March of Dimes: Basil O'Connor Starter Research Grant, "Studies of a Eukaryote Model for Orotic Aciduria." $46,137
1975-1978 National Institutes of Health Grant No. HD-07918, "Control of Embryogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster." Total Direct Costs: $79,267
1977-1979 National Foundation--March of Dimes, "A Eukaryotic Model for the Analysis of Pyrimidine Biosynthesis." $36,000
1978-1980 National Science Foundation, "Control of Embryogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster." $84,000
1980-1984 National Science Foundation "Cellular adhesivity and the determined state of imaginal discs of Drosophila melanogaster." $55,000 for year 1; $60,000 for year 2; $65,000 for year 3
1981 Summer supplement to NSF for salary and travel for Dr. Florian Muckenthaler, Visiting Professor in my laboratory. ($12,000)
1984-1987 National Science Foundation, "Cellular adhesivity and the determined state of imaginal discs of Drosophila melanogaster." $155,000 for 2 ½ years.
1988-1989 Bio-Med Research Support Grant, "A New Look at Planarian Development." $6,000
1989-1990 Bio-Med Research Support Grant, "Genetic Control of Planarian Regeneration." $1,600
1990-1992 Hughes Foundation Grant for planarian research. $5,000
1991 Biology Research Support Grant, "The Evolution of Sexuality in Planaria" (with D. Rand, A. Schmitt, and L. Brooks). $7,000
1992 National Science Foundation--History of Science. "Dissecting Black Women: Biologists' Accounts of Race and Gender in the 19th Century". $50,000
1999-2000 Social Science Research Foundation, from the Sexuality Research Fellowship Program, "An Unexplored Country: American Sex Research and the Rise of the Survey, 1900-1948" (with Miriam Reumann, Ph.D.). $44,000
2004 Brown University Wayland Collegium support for a 2-day roundtable in the fall of 2004 on "Understanding Sexual differentiation: A New Paradigm for Psychology". $5,000
2004 Marshall Woods Lectureships Foundation of Fine Arts award (Brown University Lectureship Funds) for "Race and the Human Genome". $5,000
2004 Ford Foundation Grant (via the Pembroke Center) for roundtable on the topic of "Understanding Sexual Differentiation in Human Development" $25,000
2005 The Pembroke Center for Research on "The Emergence of Difference in Early Child Development". $20,000 for one year
2006-2010 The Ford Foundation, "A dynamic systems approach to the emergence of sex-related differences in infancy". $60,000.
1974-1977 National Science Foundation Grant No. BMS-19691, "Control of Embryogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster." $30,000
1974-1977 National Foundation--March of Dimes: Basil O'Connor Starter Research Grant, "Studies of a Eukaryote Model for Orotic Aciduria." $46,137
1975-1978 National Institutes of Health Grant No. HD-07918, "Control of Embryogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster." Total Direct Costs: $79,267
1977-1979 National Foundation--March of Dimes, "A Eukaryotic Model for the Analysis of Pyrimidine Biosynthesis." $36,000
1978-1980 National Science Foundation, "Control of Embryogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster." $84,000
1980-1984 National Science Foundation "Cellular adhesivity and the determined state of imaginal discs of Drosophila melanogaster." $55,000 for year 1; $60,000 for year 2; $65,000 for year 3
1981 Summer supplement to NSF for salary and travel for Dr. Florian Muckenthaler, Visiting Professor in my laboratory. ($12,000)
1984-1987 National Science Foundation, "Cellular adhesivity and the determined state of imaginal discs of Drosophila melanogaster." $155,000 for 2 ½ years.
1988-1989 Bio-Med Research Support Grant, "A New Look at Planarian Development." $6,000
1989-1990 Bio-Med Research Support Grant, "Genetic Control of Planarian Regeneration." $1,600
1990-1992 Hughes Foundation Grant for planarian research. $5,000
1991 Biology Research Support Grant, "The Evolution of Sexuality in Planaria" (with D. Rand, A. Schmitt, and L. Brooks). $7,000
1992 National Science Foundation--History of Science. "Dissecting Black Women: Biologists' Accounts of Race and Gender in the 19th Century". $50,000
1999-2000 Social Science Research Foundation, from the Sexuality Research Fellowship Program, "An Unexplored Country: American Sex Research and the Rise of the Survey, 1900-1948" (with Miriam Reumann, Ph.D.). $44,000
2004 Brown University Wayland Collegium support for a 2-day roundtable in the fall of 2004 on "Understanding Sexual differentiation: A New Paradigm for Psychology". $5,000
2004 Marshall Woods Lectureships Foundation of Fine Arts award (Brown University Lectureship Funds) for "Race and the Human Genome". $5,000
2004 Ford Foundation Grant (via the Pembroke Center) for roundtable on the topic of "Understanding Sexual Differentiation in Human Development" $25,000
2005 The Pembroke Center for Research on "The Emergence of Difference in Early Child Development". $20,000 for one year
2006-2010 The Ford Foundation, "A dynamic systems approach to the emergence of sex-related differences in infancy". $60,000.
Scholarly Work
Publications are listed and available for download on annefaustosterling.com
Background
Education and Training
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | PhD | Brown University |
| 1965 | BS | University of Wisconsin |
Honors and Awards
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Affiliations
Teaching
Teaching Overview
Professor Fausto-Sterling has taught courses in developmental biology, gender studies and in science and technology studies.