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Donna Haraway is Born
Donna Haraway was born on September 6, 1944, in Denver, Colorado where she grew up and studied zoology and philosophy at Colorado College while rewarded the Boettcher Foundation scholarship ("donna Haraway"). -
University of Hawaii
Donna Haraway was a professor at the University of Hawaii from 1971-to 1974 where she taught the history of science and women's studies (“Donna J Haraway”). -
Completed her PhD
In 1972 completed a Ph.D. in biology at Yale. combining fields for philosophy, biology, and history of science her dissertation was, “The Search for Organizing Relations: An Organismic Paradigm in 20th-Century Developmental Biology." ("Donna Haraway"). -
John Hopkins
From 1974 to 1980 Donna Haraway was a professor at John Hopkins University (“Donna J Haraway”). -
Donna joins University Of California
In 1980 Donna Haraway joined the University of California in Santa Cruz. She joined the history of consciousness and feminist studies department (“Donna J Haraway”). -
A Cyborg Manifesto
Donna Haraway's most famous essay was published in 1985 called "A Cyborg Manifesto." "is an effort to build an ironic political myth faithful to feminism, socialism, and materialism" The essay begins with that theory is a mistake that misses reality and that taking responsibility for science and technology in a social form makes for refusing any anti-science metaphysics. Reconstructing boundaries of life while communicating in every aspect (“Donna J Haraway”). -
Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science
Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science were published in 1989 and focus on primatology. In this piece, Haraway questions the fundamental construction of scientific human nature based on primates. She gives a different perspective on the ideologies that shape how scientific human nature stories are created (“Donna J Haraway”). -
From Cyborgs to companion species
From 2003 to 2004 Donna Haraway lectured at UC Berkley. Her lecture covers primatology, philosophy, and developmental biology. Her essay “The Cyborg Manifesto” is taught to undergraduates at most universities. She talks of how technology has been changing us and animals (UC Berkeley Events). https://youtu.be/Q9gis7-Jads -
Bibliography
“Donna Haraway.” The European Graduate School, https://egs.edu/biography/donna-haraway/. Accessed 9 Mar. 2022. “Donna J Haraway.” Feministstudies.Ucsc.Edu, http://feministstudies.ucsc.edu/faculty/singleton.php?&singleton=true&cruz_id=haraway. UC Berkeley Events. Donna Haraway: “From Cyborgs to Companion Species.” 2011. YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9gis7-Jads.