Tim Harris
Professor:
History, Box N, Providence, R.I. 02912 (mailing address)
Phone: +1 401 863 2627
Phone 2: +1 401 863 2131
Tim_Harris@Brown.EDU
Munro-Goodwin-Wilkinson Professor in European History.
I am interested in the interaction between high politics and low politics and the study of popular protest, popular culture, religion, and politics in England, Scotland, and Ireland during Britain's Century of Revolutions.
Biography
Tim Harris received his BA, MA and PhD from Cambridge University and was a Fellow of Emmanuel College from 1983 before moving to Brown in 1986. He teaches a wide range of courses in the political, religious, intellectual, social and cultural history of early modern England, Scotland and Ireland. A social historian of politics, he has written about the interface of high and low politics, popular protest movements, ideology and propaganda, party politics, popular culture, and the politics of religious dissent during Britain's Age of Revolutions. He edits the book series Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History for Boydell Press and is on the editorial board of the journal History of European Ideas.
Interests
I am interested in the interaction between high politics and low politics and the study of popular protest, popular culture, religion, and politics in England, Scotland, and Ireland during Britain's Century of Revolutions.
Degrees
M.A.,Ph.D. Cantab.
Awards
1989-90 Charter Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford University
1992 Visiting Scholar, Mansfield College, Oxford University (summer)
1993 Fletcher Jones Fellow of the Huntington Library - July/August
1996-7 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
2006-7 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
2006 John Ben Snow Prize (NACBS book prize) for 2005 for Restoration: Charles II and His Kingdoms, 1660-1685
2008 Trinity Term, Visiting Research Fellow, Merton College, Oxford
2009 Spring, Faculty Fellow, Cogut Humanities Center, Brown University
2011-12, Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
2012 (Easter Term), Senior Visitor, Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Affiliations
North American Conference on British Studies
North East Conference on British Studies
Teaching
I teach a range of courses in Early Modern British History, c. 1500-1800 (political, religious, constitutional, legal, social, cultural, intellectual).
England, 1529-1660: Reformation to Revolution
Britain, 1660-c.1800: Restoration to Enlightenment
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Scotland and Ireland
The English Revolution
Spin, Terror and Revolution: England, Scotland and Ireland, 1660-1714
Early Modern English Women
Social History of Early Modern England
Popular Culture in Early Modern England
A History of Prejudice in Early Modern England
Graduate Fields in early modern British History
Funded Research
1980-83 Department of Education and Science (U.K.), Research Studentship
1985 British Academy Personal Research Grant
1989-90 Charter Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford University
1992 National Endowment for the Humanities - Summer Stipend Award
1993 Fletcher Jones Fellowship, Huntington Library - July/August
1996-7 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1998 British Academy Travel Grant
1998 Faculty Development Grant, Brown University
2000-3 Arts and Humanities Research Board, major research grant for the Roger Morrice Ent'ring Book project
2006-7 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Folger, D.C.
2008 Visiting Fellowship, Merton College Oxford University
2009 Faculty Fellowship, Cogut Humanities Center, Brown University
2011 Visiting Research Fellowship, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin
2011-12 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Senior Scholarship, IAS, Princeton
