Ruth Harris (historian)
Ruth Harris | |
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| Born | 25 December 1958 |
| Nationality | American |
| Title | Professor of Modern History |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | Wolfson History Prize (2010) Fellow of the British Academy (2011) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania University of Oxford |
| Thesis | Murders and madness: legal psychiatry and criminal anthropology in Paris, 1880-1910 (1984) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ludmilla Jordanova |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
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Ruth Harris FBA (born 25 December 1958) is an American historian and academic. She has been Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford since 2011 and a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, since 2016. Previously, she was a junior research fellow at St John's College, Oxford, from 1983 to 1987, an associate professor at Smith College from 1987 to 1990, and a fellow of New College, Oxford, between 1990 and 2016. She was awarded the Wolfson History Prize in 2010 for her book The Man on Devil's Island, a biography on Alfred Dreyfus.