Donna Haraway (born September 6, 1944, Denver) is Distinguished Professor Emerita in the Department of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). She earned her PhD in Biology from Yale in 1972. She writes and lectures on science and technology studies, exploring their philosophical, political, and cultural implications with an interdisciplinary approach that connects feminist theory with multispecies studies.
She has advised the dissertations of more than 60 doctoral students in diverse disciplinary and interdisciplinary areas. At UCSC, she is actively involved with the Science and Justice Research Center and the Center for Cultural Studies. Addressing the intersection of biology with culture and politics, Haraway's work explores the complexities of science factuality, science fiction, speculative feminism, speculative fabulation, science and technology studies, and multispecies worldbuilding.
His notable books include: Staying with the Trouble: Making Kinship in the Chthulucene, Duke University Press (2016); Manifestly Haraway, University of Minnesota Press (2016); When Species Meet, University of Minnesota Press (2008); The Haraway Reader, Routledge (2004); The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness, Prickly Paradigm Press (2003); Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium, Routledge (1997, 2018); Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, Routledge (1991); Primate Visions. Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science, Routledge (1989); and Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology, Northwestern University Press (1976, 2004).
Two film productions have been dedicated to the philosopher's work: Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival (2016), a documentary directed by Fabrizio Terranova, and Camille & Ulysse (2021), a film directed by Diana Toucedo, starring Haraway and Vinciane Despret. With Adele Clarke, she co-edited Making Kin Not Population (Prickly Paradigm Press, 2018), which addresses issues such as human population, anti-racist feminist reproductive and environmental justice, and multispecies flourishing.
