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Early Life
Donna Jeanne Haraway was born on September 6, 1944, in Denver, Colorado. Her father was a sportswriter for the Denver Post. While unclear what her mother's occupation was if she had one, she tragically died when Donna was only 16 years old. Her mother's strong catholic beliefs are what influenced Donna in her early years. Due to this, Donna attended high school at St. Mary's Academy in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado. -
Education
Donna Haraway attended the Colorado College majoring in Zoology with minors in philosophy and English. She attended on the Boettcher Scholarship, a full tuition and partial boarding awarded to Colorado students based on their high school academic studies. After graduating college, Haraway moved to Paris and studied evolutionary philosophy and theology at the Fondation Teilhard de Chardin on a Fulbright scholarship. This is a cultural exchange scholarship program -
Philosophy work
Donna Haraway received her PhD in Biology Studies in 1972. She wrote a dissertation about the use of metaphor in shaping experiments in experimental biology that she later edited into a book named Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology in 1976. In 1985 she published an essay discussing the male bias in science and cyborg feminism. She wanted her readers to understand the idea that men were exploiting women for their reproduction labor. -
Professor Haraway
Donna Haraway taught the history of science and women's studies at the University of Hawaii from 1971 to 1974. She also taught at Johns Hopkins from 1974 to 1980. Donna is currently an American Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department and Feminist Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.