Prof. Clare Harris
Professor of Visual Anthropology, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography Curator for Asian Collections, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford
Prof. Clare Harris gained her B.A. from the University of Cambridge, followed by an M.A. and Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She is currently Professor of Visual Anthropology and Curator for Asian collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. Her pioneering work on Tibetan art, visual/material culture, photography and museums has effectively created a new field of study for which she has received international recognition in the form of book prizes, research grants, and invitations to lecture at universities around the world. Among her many publications, In the Image of Tibet: Tibetan Painting after 1959 won the jury prize for the best book in visual anthropology from the International Center for Ethnohistory in 2000. The Museum on the Roof of the World: Art, Politics and the Representation of Tibet received the E. Gene Smith prize from the Association of Asian Studies in 2013.
Prof Harris has conducted much of her research in India and is currently working on a monograph about the history of photography in the Himalayas. In September 2019, she was elected to the fellowship of the British Academy.