1. Donna Jeanne Haraway was born on September 6,1944 and is an American professor emerita in the history of consciousness and feminist studies departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a prominent scholar in the field of science and technology studies.
Donna Haraway has contributed to the intersection of information technology and feminist theory, and is a leading scholar in contemporary ecofeminism.
Donna Haraway's work criticizes anthropocentrism, emphasizes the self-organizing powers of nonhuman processes, and explores dissonant relations between those processes and cultural practices, rethinking sources of ethics.
Donna Haraway began working as a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1980 where she became the first tenured professor in feminist theory in the United States.
Donna Haraway's work has sparked debate in primatology, philosophy, and developmental biology.
Donna Haraway participated in a collaborative exchange with the feminist theorist Lynn Randolph from 1990 to 1996.
Donna Haraway was awarded the American Sociological Association's Section on 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.
In 2017, Donna Haraway was awarded the Wilbur Cross Medal, one of the highest honors for alumni of Yale University.
In 2021, Donna Haraway received the Nuevo Leon Alfonso Reyes Prize for imagining new horizons for the fusion of science, humanities, biology, and philosophy.
Donna Jeanne Haraway was born on September 6,1944, in Denver, Colorado.
Donna Haraway's father, Frank O Haraway, was a sportswriter for The Denver Post.
Donna Haraway attended high school at St Mary's Academy in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado.
Donna Haraway majored in zoology, with minors in philosophy and English at the Colorado College, on the full-tuition Boettcher Scholarship.
Donna Haraway's dissertation was later edited into a book and published under the title Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology.
In 1999, Donna Haraway received the Society for Social Studies of Science's Ludwik Fleck Prize.
In September 2000, Donna Haraway was awarded the Society for Social Studies of Science's highest honor, the JD Bernal Award, for her "distinguished contributions" to the field.
In Donna Haraway's thesis, "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective", she means to expose the myth of scientific objectivity.
Donna Haraway defined the term "situated knowledges" as a means of understanding that all knowledge comes from positional perspectives.
Currently, Donna Haraway is an American professor emerita in the history of consciousness and feminist studies departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz, United States.
In 1985, Donna Haraway published the essay "Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the 1980s" in Socialist Review.
Donna Haraway later discussed her thoughts on A Cyborg Manifesto, gender and 'post-gender' in 2006, critiquing distinct and imposed categories; "people are made to live several non-isomorphic categories simultaneously, all of which torque them".
Donna Haraway contended that female primatologists focus on different observations that require more communication and basic survival activities, offering very different perspectives of the origins of nature and culture than the currently accepted ones.
Donna Haraway urges feminists to be more involved in the world of technoscience and to be credited for that involvement.
Donna Haraway created a panel called "Make Kin not Babies" in 2015 with five other feminist thinkers.
Donna Haraway stresses how this does not mean it is not a fact.
Donna Haraway argues that humans 'companion' relationship with dogs can show us the importance of recognizing differences and 'how to engage with significant otherness'.
Donna Haraway believes that we should be using the term "companion species" instead of "companion animals" because of the relationships we can learn through them.
Donna Haraway's work has been criticized for being "methodologically vague" and using noticeably opaque language that is "sometimes concealing in an apparently deliberate way".