Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton

Professor Jonathan Harris is Director of Research at Winchester School of Art and one of the co-directors of the Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art Design & Media. He received his first degree in art history from University of Sussex, 1983; and his PhD in Federal Art in the US 1935-43 from Middlesex, on the social history of art and modern culture since the mid-C19th.

Prior to his position at Winchester, Jonathan has held positions as professor of art history at University of Liverpool, has been a visiting lecturer at University of Leeds, was senior lecturer at Keele University, has acted as a visiting scholar in Australia, and has lectured widely - in Europe, the USA and recently in China. He has appeared on television, has published 19 books, numerous articles and has been invited to countless events and conferences on art and globalization.

Professor Harris' main research interests are: globalization and contemporary art, politics and art in the twentieth century

PhD supervision

Jonathan is interested in supervising theses on a wide variety of topics, related to art history and globalization: Modern and contemporary art, culture and the state, art historiography, Marxism and cultural studies, American and European art since the nineteenth century

Research projects

AHRC CDA in art institutions and socio-cultural change;
International art criticism anthology, globalization & contemporary art, collaborative research projects with Tate Liverpool