Carole Hooven

Carole Hooven is an evolutionary biologist. She is a nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. She is an associate in the lab of Steven Pinker.

She is the former co-director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology of Harvard University.

Hooven received a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Antioch College and a PhD in biological anthropology from Harvard University.

In 2021, Hooven participated in a television interview in which she stated that while gender identities should be respected, there are only two biological sexes that are "designated by the kinds of gametes we produce". This lead to a backlash against her by faculty and members of the student body. In January 2023, she left her position feeling she had no support from the administration. In the spring of 2023, members of the Harvard faculty formed the Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard to promote "free inquiry, intellectual diversity and civil discourse". The group was formed to address concerns about academic freedom, with Hooven's case a catalyst for its formation. It has about 170 members as of February 2024.

In 2021, she authored the book ''T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us''

In February 2024, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression gave Harvard University its "lifetime censorship award" for the censoring of campus free speech, including its treatment of Hooven. Provided by Wikipedia