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Birth and Early Childhood
Donna Jeanne Haraway was born September 6th, 1944 in Denver, Colorado. Haraway attended high school at St. Mary’s Academy in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado.
She attended the Colorado College, where she majored in Zoology with minors in Philosophy and English. (O’Neill-Butler, L. 2016, Interview with Donna Haraway)
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University Of Hawaii
Teaching History of Science and Women’s Studies at The University of Hawaii (1971-1974) (O’Neill-Butler, L. 2016) https://egs.edu/faculty/donna-haraway -
Early Notable Research
Haraway’s Dissertation “ The Search For Organizing Relations” covers many subjects like philosophy, history of science and medicine. The level of passion in this paper reads as almost poetic in some instances. See “Paradigm and Metaphor” on page 1 of Chapter 1. (O’Neill-Butler, L. 2016, Interview with Donna Haraway) “THE SEARCH FOR ORGANIZING RELATIONS: AN ORGANISMIC PARADIGM IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY.” ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1972. Web. *Found through AMU Library -
Furthering Education
After her time at Colorado College, Haraway moved herself to Paris, France where she studied Evolutionary Philosophy and Theology at the Fondation Teilhard de Chardin under a Fulbright Scholarship. Attaining her PhD in Biology from Yale in 1972 with her dissertation “The Search For Organizing Relations”. (O’Neill-Butler, L. 2016) https://egs.edu/faculty/donna-haraway
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Johns Hopkins University
Teaching History Of Science and Women’s Studies at Johns Hopkins University (1974–80). (O’Neill-Butler, L. 2016) https://egs.edu/faculty/donna-haraway -
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University Of California
Haraway joined the History of Consciousness program at Santa Cruz, California in 1980. (O’Neill-Butler, L. 2016) https://egs.edu/faculty/donna-haraway -
“A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, technology and social feminism in the 1980’s”
Explained as her most famous essay; This writing covers ideas for a completely different way of perceiving ourselves and the social constructs we create but goes much deeper than that, “underling two main arguments; first, the production of universal, totalizing theory is a major mistake that misses most of reality; second, taking responsibility for the social relations of science and technology.. (O’Neill-Butler, L. 2016, Interview with Donna Haraway)
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J.D. Bernal Prize
In 2002, Haraway was awarded the J.D. Bernal Prize, the highest honor given by the Society for Social Studies of Science, for lifetime contributions to the field. (O’Neill-Butler, L. 2016) https://egs.edu/faculty/donna-haraway -
The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, people and significant otherness
An explanation of the human and canine relationship but much broader than. The collective urning and the need for fulfillment in species. Like the majority of Haraway’s work, these coverages and explainations are sort of wrapped in ideas of philosophy as to answer questions that have no explanation and even those who have less fulfilling ones. Review the link for more information on Haraway’s outlook of companion species.
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Recent Books
Staying with trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
Is a fascinating look at the history of capitalism and human behavior as consumers. The popular phrase ‘Making kin not population’ is also the title of her most recent book; Re-conceiving Generations. This writing involves human intimacy and relations or ‘kinship’ as it is referred to frequently; while also continuing to discuss the environment and environmental justice. Reviewing Staying with Trouble
https://youtu.be/GrYA7sMQaBQ
