about/media - CAROLE HOOVEN

Carole Hooven teaches in and co-directs the undergraduate program in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. She earned her BA in psychology from Antioch College in 1988 and her PhD at Harvard in 2004, researching sex differences and testosterone, and has taught there ever since. She has received numerous teaching awards, and her Hormones and Behavior class was named one of the Harvard Crimson's "top ten tried and true."

Her work has been featured in outlets including the Wall Street Journal, New Statesman, Time Magazine, Slate Magazine, the Boston Globe, the New York Post, Stylist Magazine, the Australian, BBC, Talk Radio Europe, the Daily Telegraph, the Evening Standard, the Harvard Gazette, Oxford Academic, and Nature.

She has given talks/discussed her work on the Joe Rogan Experience, Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan, C-Span (with Charis Books), Honestly with Bari Weiss, the Savage Lovecast, Intelligence Squared, the Royal Institution, Michael Shermer Show, Blocked and Reported, Femsplainers, The Dissenter, ManTalks, the Richard Reeves Show, Mindpump, the Standard Issue, Deseret News, Gender: a Wider Lens, Converging Dialogues, Sex and Psychology, The Same Drugs, the Andy Rowe show, Sigma Nutrition, Converging Dialogues, Transparency, the Rewired Soul, Keep Talking with Dan Riley, Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning, the Art of Manliness, and Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, Minding the Brain, Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea and the Spark on BBC Radio 4.

Recently, Carole has been involved in some disagreements about language in science education. See commentary by Harvard Professor Harry Lewis here.

Carole lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband Alex, son Griffin and cat Lola. She loves watching birds, running and biking, Belgian beer, salty snacks and freedom of speech.