My Take
Donna Haraway is one of those rare thinkers who genuinely changed how I look at the world — and she did it with a cyborg. A Cyborg Manifesto, published in 1985, was this gloriously weird, provocative essay that refused to let feminism stay comfortable with clean categories of "natural" versus "artificial," and honestly it holds up better with every passing decade of AI news. What I love about Haraway is that she's not just a critic lobbing complaints from the sidelines — she builds real, strange, generative ideas, like the companion species concept in When Species Meet, which rethinks our relationships with animals in ways evolutionary biology alone could never touch. Yale-trained, UC Santa Cruz professor emerita, winner of the Bernal Prize and Pilgrim Award — her credentials are impeccable, but the work itself is what earned her a permanent place in how we think about bodies, technology, and what it means to be human in a messy, entangled world.
Overview
Donna Jeanne Haraway (born September 6, 1944) 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. She has contributed to the intersection of information technology and feminist theory, and is a scholar in contemporary ecofeminism.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Donna Haraway
- Name (Japanese)
- ダナ・ハラウェイ
- Reading
- だな・はらうぇい
- Born
- September 6, 1944 (age 81)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Monkey
- Origin
- Denver, Colorado, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- philosopher / sociologist / university teacher / historian / biologist
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Yale University
Awards & achievements
- 1992 American Book Awards
- Fulbright Scholarship
- 2000 John Desmond Bernal Prize
- 2017 Wilbur Cross Medal
- Boettcher Scholarship
- 1999 Ludwik Fleck Prize
- 2011 Pilgrim Award
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | When Species Meet | — | |
| Notable work | A Cyborg Manifesto | — | |
| Notable work | Staying with the Trouble | — | |
| Notable work | The Companion Species Manifesto | — |
6. Links
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.