Donna Haraway, The Communitarian Impulse

DONNA HARAWAY is a professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California at Santa Cruz, where she teaches feminist theory and science studies. She is also an affiliated faculty member in the Women’s Studies, Anthropology and Environmental Studies Departments at UCSC. Dr. Haraway is the author of Crystals, Fabrics and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology (Yale University Press, 1976), Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (Routledge, 1989; Verso, 1992), Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (Routledge, 1991; Free Association Books, 1991) and Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan^©MeetsOncoMouse™ (New York and London: Routledge, 1997).

Haraway was born in Denver in 1944 and attended Catholic schools. With the aid of a Boettcher Foundation scholarship, she majored in zoology and philosophy at The Colorado College and also fulfilled the requirements for an English major. She graduated in 1966, studied philosophies of evolution in Paris for a year on a Fulbright and then went to the Biology Department at Yale, where she earned a Ph.D. in 1972 for an interdisciplinary dissertation on the functions of metaphor in shaping research in developmental biology in the twentieth century. She has taught at the University of Hawaii and The Johns Hopkins University and has been at UCSC since 1980.

• Sponsored by The Demarest Lloyd Humanities Lecture Fund. This fund was established by Karen Lloyd '61 in memory of her father, Demarest Lloyd, and her brother, Demarest Lloyd, Jr. The senior Lloyd (1883-1937) was a prominent publicist and journalist with the Christian Science Monitor and the Chicago Tribune. Her brother was killed in action in WW II. Her grandfather, Henry Demarest Lloyd, was also a prominent publicist.