Having graduated from Reed College in 1977, Haslanger earned her PhD in Philosophy in 1985 from the University of California, Berkeley. She has taught at Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Haslanger was selected as the 2011 Carus Lecturer by the American Philosophical Association. The Society for Women in Philosophy named her a 2010 Distinguished Woman Philosopher, citing her as one of the “best analytic feminists” in the United States. Haslanger was the president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association and was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2015. In 2018, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. She co-edits the Symposia on Gender, Race and Philosophy, an online publication for recent philosophical work on gender and race.

Awards:

•  2014 Joseph B. Gittler Prize for “Outstanding Scholarly Contribution in the field of philosophy, for her book Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique, Oxford University Press.
• 2018 was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her book Doing Justice to the Social, Oxford University Press.

• Theorizing Feminisms: A Reader, Due Date: June 28, 2022, Oxford University Press, 592 pages
• Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique, Print publication date: 2012, Oxford University Press, 512 pages
• What Is Race?: Four Philosophical Views, Publisher‏ : ‎Oxford University Press (June 14, 2019), Paperback ‏ : ‎ 296 pages
• Adoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays, Cornell University Press, December 20, 2004
• Persistence: Contemporary Readings (MIT Readers in Contemporary Philosophy), A Bradford Book (November 3, 2006), Hardcover: 496 pages
• Ideology in Practice: What Does Ideology Do? (The Aquinas Lecture, 2021), Marquette University Press; First edition (November 1, 2021), 88 pages
• On Social Construction (Studies in Feminist Philosophy), Oxford University Press, (December 1, 2007), 272 pages.