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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.
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
- Occupation
- philosopher / sociologist / university teacher / historian / biologist
2. Background
- 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
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
Frequently asked questions
When was Donna Haraway born?
Born September 6, 1944 (age 81).
Where is Donna Haraway from?
Donna Haraway is from Denver, Colorado, United States.
What does Donna Haraway do?
Donna Haraway works as philosopher, sociologist, university teacher, historian, biologist.
What is Donna Haraway known for?
Notable works include When Species Meet, A Cyborg Manifesto, Staying with the Trouble.
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.