Rate My Professor Donna Haraway

Donna Haraway is a Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, contributing to the Social Science faculty through her interdisciplinary work. She earned her PhD in Biology from Yale University in 1972. Haraway joined UC Santa Cruz in 1980 as a professor in the History of Consciousness Program, one of the first interdisciplinary graduate programs in the United States, and her position in feminist theory was among the earliest of its kind. She is also affiliated with the Feminist Studies Department, Anthropology Department, and Environmental Studies Department within the Humanities Division.

Haraway's research specializations encompass science, technology, and medicine studies; feminist theory; relations between life and human sciences; histories of animal-human relationships; cultures of nature and environment; science and politics; and animal studies. Key publications include Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors that Shape Embryos (1976), A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century (1985), Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (1989), Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (1991), Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan©_Meets_OncoMouse™ (1997), The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness (2003), When Species Meet (2008), and Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (2016). Her scholarship has profoundly influenced science and technology studies, feminist theory, and multispecies studies. Haraway has received major awards, including the J.D. Bernal Prize in 2000 from the Society for Social Studies of Science for lifetime contributions, the Wilbur L. Cross Medal from Yale University, election to the Fellowship of the British Academy in 2019, the 2025 Erasmus Prize, and the 2025 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.