Donna Haraway

Donna Jeanne Haraway, born September 6, 1944, is an American philosopher who has contributed to the intersection of information technology and feminist theory and is a scholar of contemporary ecofeminism, whose work criticizes anthropocentrism, emphasizes the self-organizing powers of nonhuman processes, and explores dissonant relations between those processes and cultural practices, rethinking the sources of ethics. She taught women's studies and the history of science at the University of Hawaii from 1971 to 1974 and at Johns Hopkins University from 1974 to 1980, before becoming in 1980 the first tenured professor in feminist theory in the United States at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work has contributed to the study of human-machine and human-animal relations and has sparked debate in primatology, philosophy and developmental biology; she received the Society for Social Studies of Science's Ludwik Fleck Prize in 1999 for Modest_Witness, the American Sociological Association's Robert K. Merton Award in 1992 for Primate Visions, the Wilbur Cross Medal from Yale University in 2017, the Nuevo Leon Alfonso Reyes Prize in 2021, and the Erasmus Prize in 2025.