MICRO-BIO

• Jim Harris is the Andrew W Mellon Foundation Teaching Curator at the Ashmolean Museum in the University of Oxford. He trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and as art historian at the Courtauld Institute of Art in the University o...More

  Jim Harris is the Andrew W Mellon Foundation Teaching Curator at the Ashmolean Museum in the University of Oxford. He trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and as art historian at the Courtauld Institute of Art in the University of London, where he wrote his doctoral thesis on the polychrome sculpture of Donatello under the supervision of Professor Patricia Rubin. He subsequently held the Andrew W Mellon Research Forum Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Caroline Villers Research Fellowship in Conservation at the Courtauld. His research employs the technical examination of sculptural materials,mobjects and their surfaces to invesigate issues of artistic and patronal intention and the shifting meanings of objects across time. At Oxford, he is concerned with exploring and developing the use of the Ashmolean's collections in the teaching of the University. Jim is co-founder, with Dr Senta German, of 'Agile Objects', a resource for university museums and academics seeking to exploit collections in university teaching. He was for a decade a director of the London contemporary art gallery Man & Eve and is Chair of Trustees of the educational charity Our Hut, which teaches on architecture and the built environment in inner-London primary schools.

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EXPERIENCE

• University of Oxford

  • Andrew W Mellon Foundation Teaching Curator
  • Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
  • October 2012 to Present

• Courtauld Institute of Art

  • Caroline Villers Research Fellow in Conservation
  • Conservation
  • January 2012 to October 2012

• Courtauld Institute of Art

  • Andrew W Mellon Research Forum Postdoctoral Fellow
  • HIstory of Art
  • December 2010 to January 2012

EDUCATION

• Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London

  • PhD
  • October 2005 to September 2010

  Donatello's Polychrome Sculpture: Case Studies in Materials and Meaning

Links

• Ashmolean Museum
• Academia.edu
• Agile Objects
• Our Hut