Tim Harris
Munro-Goodwin Wilkinson Professor in European History:
Department of History; Programme in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
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. His books include London Crowds in the Reign of Charles II (Cambridge University Press, 1987), The Politics of Religion in Restoration England (Basil Blackwell, 1990), Politics under the Later Stuarts (Longman, 1993), Popular Culture in England, c. 1500-1850 (Macmillan, 1995), The Politics of the Excluded, c. 1500-1850 (Palgrave, 2001), Restoration: Charles II and His Kingdoms 1660-1685 (Penguin, 2005) and Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685-1720 (Penguin, 2006). He served as an Associate Editor for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and most recently has co-edited the Roger Morrice Entring Book, a lengthy political journal (some of it in shorthand) documenting the trials and tribulations of godly Protestants across Britain and Europe from the late 1670s until the early 1690s (Boydell Press, 2007). He is currently working on a prequel to his books Restoration and Revolution and a study of Prejudice in early modern England. He serves as a resident Faculty Fellow on the Pembroke Campus (holding 'study breaks' for students every Wednesday night in his home) and is Chair of the British Program Committee for the Office of International Programs (overseeing the study-abroad programs in Britain). The recipient of grants and fellowships from the Arts and Humanities Research Board, British Academy, Folger Shakespeare Library, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Huntington Library, and National Endowment for the Humanities, he has been a Visiting Charter Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford and taught at the Folger Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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
1980-83 Department of Education and Science (U.K.), Research Studentship
1985 British Academy Personal Research Grant
1988 Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, Summer Research Grant
1989 Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, Summer Research Grant
1989 Visiting Former Fellow, Emmanuel College, Cambridge University (summer)
1989-90 Charter Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford University (Visiting Fellowship, in residence Trinity Term/summer, 1990)
1991 Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, Summer Research Grant
1991 Visiting Former Fellow, Emmanuel College, Cambridge University
1992 Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, Summer Research Grant
1992 National Endowment for the Humanities - Summer Stipend Award
1992 Visiting Scholar, Mansfield College, Oxford University (summer)
1993 Fletcher Jones Fellow of the Huntington Library - July/August
1994 Small Grants Program, Brown University (Office of the Dean of Research), Summer Research Award
1994 Visiting Former Fellow, Emmanuel College, Cambridge University (summer)
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 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
Affiliations
North American Conference on British Studies
North East Conference on British Studies
Teaching
Early Modern Britain, c. 1500-1800 (political, religious, constitutional, legal, social, cultural)
England, 1529-1660: From Reformation to Civil War
Britain, 1660-c.1800: From Restoration to Enlightenment
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Scotland and Ireland
The British Revolutions of the Seventeenth Century
Early Modern Women
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
1988 Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, Summer Research Grant
1989 Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, Summer Research Grant
1989 Visiting Former Fellow, Emmanuel College, Cambridge University (summer)
1989-90 Charter Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford University (Visiting Fellowship, in residence Trinity Term/summer, 1990)
1991 Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, Summer Research Grant
1991 Visiting Former Fellow, Emmanuel College, Cambridge University
1992 Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, Summer Research Grant
1992 National Endowment for the Humanities - Summer Stipend Award
1992 Visiting Scholar, Mansfield College, Oxford University (summer)
1993 Fletcher Jones Fellow of the Huntington Library - July/August
1994 Small Grants Program, Brown University (Office of the Dean of Research), Summer Research Award
1994 Visiting Former Fellow, Emmanuel College, Cambridge University (summer)
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 (awarded to the editorial team collectively to support research staff; administered in Cambridge, England, by Dr Mark Goldie)
2006-7 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
