Early Life
Donna Jeanne Haraway was born in 1944 in Denver, Colorado. Her father was a sportswriter for The Denver Post and her mother, from a heavily Irish Catholic background died when she was 16. Haraway attended high school at St. Mary’s Academy in Denver. After high school Haraway moved to Paris and studied evolutionary philosophy and theology at the Fondation Teilhard de Chardin on a Fulbright scholarship. Haraway then did a triple major in zoology, philosophy and literature at the Colorado College She completed her Ph.D. in biology at Yale in 1970 writing a dissertation about the use of metaphor in shaping experiments in experimental biology titled Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields: Metaphors of Organicism in Twentieth-Century Developmental Biology. Haraway was the recipient of a number of scholarships which she attributed to the Cold War and post-war American hegemony saying “people like me became national resources in the national science efforts. So, there was money available for educating even Irish Catholic girls’ brains."
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