Harris, Jay M.

(Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA) Harris is the Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies and chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. Prior to that, Harris was director of Harvard’s Center for Jewish Studies and a senior advisor to the former college Dean. Harris holds a B.A. from Columbia University, a masters degree from Columbia and the Jewish Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. from Columbia. After various teaching appointments at Columbia, the Jewish Theological Seminary, Princeton University, and the University of Pennsylvania, he joined Harvard as an assistant professor of Jewish studies in 1989. Harris has authored or edited nine books and was editor of the Association for Jewish Studies Review from 2000 to 2004.