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Timothy J G Harris serves as the Munro, Goodwin, Wilkinson Professor of European History at Brown University. Having received his BA, MA, and PhD from Cambridge University, he was a Fellow of Emmanuel College from 1983 before joining Brown in 1986. His teaching encompasses the political, religious, intellectual, social, and cultural history of early modern England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Harris specializes in the interaction between high politics and low politics, with particular expertise in popular protest movements, ideology and propaganda, party politics, and the politics of religious dissent during Britain's Age of Revolutions. He has edited the book series Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History for Boydell Press and serves on the editorial board of The European Legacy.
His research demonstrates consistent thematic focus on how political power operated across social strata in early modern Britain, with particular attention to religious tensions as political catalysts. Harris frequently examines how anti-Catholic sentiment shaped political alignments and how popular culture both reflected and influenced political developments across the British Isles.
Harris's scholarly contributions have been recognized with numerous prestigious awards:
- 1989-90 Charter Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford University
- 1993 Fletcher Jones Fellow of the Huntington Library
- 1996-7 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
- 2006 John Ben Snow Prize for Restoration: Charles II and His Kingdoms, 1660-1685
- 2006-7 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
- 2011-12 Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
- 2014-15 Fletcher Jones Foundation Distinguished Fellow, Huntington Library
His research has been supported by significant grants including those from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1992), British Academy (1980-83, 1985, 1998), and Arts and Humanities Research Board (2000-03). Harris has held visiting positions at Oxford University, the Huntington Library, Folger Shakespeare Library, Trinity College Dublin, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He actively serves the academic community through editorial work and participation in scholarly organizations including the North American Conference on British Studies and North East Conference on British Studies.
