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Donna Haraway
Donna Haraway was born in 1944 in Denver, CO. She first attended Colorado College, then studied at the Foundation Teilhard de Chardin in Paris on the Fulbright Scholarship. She graduated from Yale in 1972 with a PhD in Biology. -
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PHIL202 WK5 TIMELINE - DONNA HARAWAY
Donna Haraway has a lifetime of not only achievements but highlights. -
University of California, Santa Cruz
Donna Haraway joined the U of CA, Santa Cruz in 1980. She was the first tenured professor of feminist theory in the United States. On the website, her area of expertise is listed as, "Science, technology, and medicine studies; feminist theory; relations between life and human sciences; histories of animal-human relationships; cultures of nature and environment; science and politics; animal studies." -
"A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist - Feminism in the 1980's" was published in Socialist Review
Haraway's most famous work began as an "assignment on feminist strategy for the Socialist Review after the election of Ronald Reagan and grew into an oracular meditation on how cybernetics and digitization had changed what it meant to be male or female – or, really, any kind of person" according to Moira Weigel's 'Feminist Cyborg Scholar Donna Haraway: ‘The Disorder of Our Era Isn’t Necessary.' which ran in the guardian. The essay was written partly in response to the rise of conservatism. -
1988 ‘Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective’ was published.
According to Learning Link, " she argues that we should think of science, politics, or any other field of knowledge not as objective but as forms of knowledge that are conditioned by the specific situation of the researcher. Throughout the 20th century, the illusion of scientific neutrality, for example, was upheld by a shared standpoint: the white European male. Haraway builds on Thomas Kuhn’s idea of scientific paradigms to dispute the claim that scientific questions can be understood in ...." -
Book 'Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science'
Donna Haraway was awarded the Section on Science Knowledge and Technology's Robert K. Merton Award. The book, "Primate Visions" raises questions about the accepted perception of primates and their relationships in the community and the perceived dominance of male primates in sexual encounters. Previous male primate dominance theories and the methodology used to determine it were questioned. -
Awarded the J.D. Bernal Prize by the Society for Social Studies of Science
Donna Haraway was awarded the J.D. Bernal Prize for her contributions to science and technology. She opened minds and studies with her ideas on the interconnectedness of all things, especially sciences (including biology) and technology. Throughout her lifetime she pursued how all things are connected using observation, study, and an openness to all things science. Her many contributions are cataloged under her directory at UofC, Santa Cruz. -
2024
Donna Haraway continues a long and prestigious career as distinguished professor emerita UofCA, SC. She lives in northern California. From her interview with Moira Weigel of the guardian, she says, where her interests are currently, "the center of my attention are land and water sovereignty struggles, ..., over extractionism everywhere. My attention is centered on the extermination and extinction crises...., displacement and homelessness.... My feminism is in these other places and corridors."