Lis Harris

Associate Professor

Lis Harris received a B.A. from Bennington College and was a staff writer at The New Yorker from 1970 to 1995. In addition to innumerable articles, reviews and commentaries, she is the author of Holy Days: The World of a Hasidic Family, Rules of Engagement: Four American Marriages, and Tilting at Mills: Green Dreams, Dirty dealings and the Corporate Squeeze. She was editor of The Village Voice Literary Supplement from 1973-75 and visiting professor at Wesleyan University from 1990-94. A two-time Woodrow Wilson Lila Acheson Wallace Fellowship recipient, she was awarded grants in 1998 from the J.M. Kaplan Fund, and the Fund for the City of New York, and in 1998 and 1999 from the Rockefeller Fund.