Donna Haraway, distinguished professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has received the 2025 Erasmus Prize from the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, a Dutch cultural institution dedicated to advancing the fields of humanities, social sciences, and the arts. The prize, which includes a €150,000 reward, is presented annually to an individual who has made exceptional scholarly contributions throughout their career.
From 1980 until her retirement, Dr. Haraway was a professor of the history of consciousness and feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Earlier in her career, she taught women’s studies and the philosophy of science at the University of Hawaii and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
As a philosopher and historian of science, Dr. Haraway is interested in the interconnections of biology, literature, art, culture, and politics. Her work on multi-species feminist theory has significantly influenced the understanding of how the natural world is intertwined with issues of race and gender. She has authored numerous books, including her most recent monograph, Staying With the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Duke University Press, 2016).
Dr. Haraway earned her bachelor’s degree in zoology and philosophy from Colorado College and her Ph.D in biology from Yale University.