Henrietta Harrison

Henrietta Katherine Harrison, FBA (born 1967) is a British historian, sinologist, and academic.

Education and career

Henrietta Harrison was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, Hammersmith, Newnham College, Cambridge (BA 1989), Harvard University (MA) and the University of Oxford (DPhil). She was formerly a junior research fellow at St Anne's College, Oxford (1996–1998), a lecturer in Chinese at the University of Leeds (1999–2006), and a professor of history at Harvard University (2006–2012).[1] Since 2012, she has been Professor of Modern Chinese Studies at the University of Oxford. She has also been a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford since 2015, and was previously a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford (2012–2015).[1][2][3]

Honours

In 2014, Harrison was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[4]

Selected works

• Harrison, Henrietta (2000). The making of the Republican citizen: political ceremonies and symbols in China, 1911-1929. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198295198.
• Harrison, Henrietta (2005). The man awakened from dreams: one man's life in a north China village, 1857-1942. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0804750684.
• Harrison, Henrietta (2013). The Missionary's Curse and Other Tales from a Chinese Catholic Village. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520273115.

References

1. "Harrison, Prof. Henrietta Katherine". Who's Who 2018. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2017. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U282252. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
2. "Henrietta Harrison". Faculty of Oriental Studies. University of Oxford. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
3. "Professor Henrietta Harrison". Pembroke College. University of Oxford. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
4. "Professor Henrietta Harrison". The British Academy. Retrieved 26 October 2018.