Lis Harris
Professor of Professional Practice, Writing
Chair
Lis Harris, a staff writer at The New Yorker for more than two decades, is the Chair of Columbia University’s School of the Arts Writing Department, where she has taught since 1996. In addition to innumerable articles, reviews and commentaries, she is the author of Holy Days: The World of a Hasidic Family, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Rules of Engagement -- Four Couples and American Marriage, and Tilting at Windmills. A two-time Woodrow Wilson Lila Acheson Wallace Fellowship recipient, she has been awarded grants from the J.M. Kaplan Fund, the Fund for the City of New York, the Rockefeller Fund, and the German Marshall Fund.
Her work has been widely anthologized, most recently in The Stories We Tell: Classic True Tales by America’s Greatest Women Journalists. Her latest book is In Jerusalem: Three Generations of an Israeli Family and a Palestinian Family (2019).
