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Birth of Donna Haraway
Donna Haraway was born on September 6, 1944 in Denver, Colorado. -
Donna Haraway
Donna taught the history of science and women’s studies at the University of Hawaii Mānoa (1971-1974) and at Johns Hopkins University (1974–80), she joined the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her teaching and research explore the string figure knots tied by feminist theory, science and technology studies, and animal studies. https://manoa.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aId=427 -
Yale
She received her Ph.D. at Yale in Biology (but with an "interdisciplinary arrangement" with the Departments of Biology, Philosophy, and History of Science and Medicine) -
Professor
She started working as a professor at the University of Santa Cruz in 1980. She became the first tenured professor of feminist theory in the United States.
She has served as a thesis adviser for over 60 doctoral students in several disciplinary and interdisciplinary areas. -
Famous Essay
Haraway’s most famous essay was published in 1985: “A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s” -
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
Haraway wrote "Simians, Cyborgs, and Women" and it was published on December 12, 1990 https://egs.edu/biography/donna-haraway/ -
Robert K. Merton Award
She was awarded with the Section of Science, Knowledge and Technology' s Robert K. Merton award in 1992 for her work "Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science".
This book focuses on primate research and primatology. -
Society for Social Studies of Science's Ludwik Fleck Prize
Haraway received the Society for Social Studies of Science's Ludwik Fleck Prize. -
Award
Donna was awarded the John Desmond Bernal Prize, the highest honor you can receive by the Society for Social Studies of Science for lifetime contributions to the field. -
Cyborg Manifesto Videos
Cyborg Manifesto Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT4bhRMV298 From Cyborgs to Companion Species
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9gis7-Jads A Cyborg Manifesto - Haraway Primer Video
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Award
Donna was awarded the Wilbur L. Cross Medal for Distinguished Alumni. This is one of Yale's highest honors. https://wgss.yale.edu/gallery/donna-haraway-events-photos