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Birth
Donna Haraway was born on September 6, 1944 in Denver Colorado. -
Education
Haraway studied zoology and philosophy at Colorado College where she received a Boecttcher Foundation scholarship. She then studied different theories of evolution in Paris with a Fulbright scholarship. She recieved her PhD in Biology at Yale University in 1972 with the dissertation "The Search for Organizing Relations: An Organismic Paradigm in 20th Century Developmental Biology". -
Career
After graduating Yale, Haraway was an assistant professor for science and women's studies at the University of Hawaii from 1971 to 1974. She then became an assistant professor of history of science at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore from 1974 to 1980. In 1980 she became a professor in history of consciousness department with affiliation in women's studies, anthropology and environmental studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz where she still works today. -
A Cyborg Manifesto
In 1985 Haraway released her most notable essay, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century". She uses the metaphor of the cyborg, which she pointed the fact that we are inseparable from technology. "By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism". Simple items such as glasses and contacts, to robotics, and prosthetics which human and technology. -
Cyborg Manifesto Video
The following video goes into more detail of Haraways most known essay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnY9TGbvIXA -
Primate Visions
Haraway released her essay "Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science" which focuses on the evolution of scientific views of primatology. She notes how the idea is masculinized and discusses the topic of feminist primatology. -
Awards
1992- American Book Award for Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
1999- Ludwick Fleck Prize
2000- Awarded with the highest honor given by the Society for Social Studies of Science, the J.D. Bernal Award
2019- elected as a fellow of the British Academy for humanities and social sciences -
References
"American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present. . Encyclopedia.com. 17 Oct. 2020 ." Encyclopedia.com. Encyclopedia.com, 09 Nov. 2020. Web. 09 Nov. 2020.
"Donna Haraway - A Media Studies Field Guide." Web. 09 Nov. 2020.
"Donna Haraway Elected to Fellowship of the British Academy." Web. 09 Nov. 2020.
"Donna Haraway." The European Graduate School. Web. 09 Nov. 2020.
