Henrietta Katherine Harrison, (born 1967) is a British historian, sinologist, and academic.

Education and career

Henrietta Harrison was educated at

St Paul's Girls' School St Paul's Girls' School is an independent day school for girls, aged 11 to 18, located in Brook Green, Hammersmith, in West London, England. History St Paul's Girls' School was founded by the Worshipful Company of Mercers in 1904, using part o ...

, Hammersmith,

Newnham College, Cambridge Newnham College is a women's constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1871 by a group organising Lectures for Ladies, members of which included philosopher Henry Sidgwick and suffragist campaigner Millicen ...

(BA 1989),

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(MA) and the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

(DPhil). She was formerly a junior research fellow at St Anne's College, Oxford (1996–1998), a lecturer in Chinese at the

University of Leeds , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...

(1999–2006), and a professor of history at

(2006–2012). Since 2012, she has been

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of Modern Chinese Studies at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. She has also been a

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of Pembroke College, Oxford since 2015, and was previously a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford (2012–2015).

Honours and recognition

In 2014, Harrison was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. Her book, ''The Perils of Interpreting'', was shortlisted for the 2022

Cundill Prize The Cundill History Prize (formerly the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature) was founded in 2008 by Peter Cundill to recognize and promote literary and academic achievement in history. The prize is presented annually to an author who has publis ...

Selected works

* * * *Harrison, Henrietta (2021).
The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire.
' Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691225456

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Harrison, Henrietta 1967 births Living people 21st-century British historians Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge British women historians British sinologists Fellows of Pembroke College, Oxford Fellows of St Cross College, Oxford Harvard University faculty Academics of the University of Leeds Fellows of the British Academy Historians of China 21st-century British women writers Women orientalists Harvard University alumni