Julie Harris

Clark Fellow

09/01/2025–12/31/2025

Julie Harris is a specialist in the art of medieval Iberia. She has published on ivory carving, the fate of art and architecture during Reconquest warfare, illuminated Hebrew manuscripts, and the exhibition of pre-Expulsion Jewish ceremonial objects. She has participated in three of Therese Martin’s international research projects, including The Medieval Iberian Treasury in Context: Collections, Connections, and Representations on the Peninsula and Beyond, which concluded in 2022. Recent publications have appeared in Manuscript Studies, Ars Judaica, Gesta, the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, Medieval Encounters, and Abstraction in Medieval Art: Beyond the Ornament, edited by Elina Gertsman (2021). She holds a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh. In 2020 she was Center for Spain in America Fellow at the Clark Institute for her project on the decorative Carpet pages of Iberian Hebrew Bibles. Harris served as the Fishman Family Scholar in Jewish Studies at Vassar College in Spring 2024.