Robert E. Harrist Jr.

Robert E. Harrist Jr. is a professor of Chinese art history at Columbia University. His book The Landscape of Words: Stone Inscriptions from Early and Medieval China received the Joseph Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies (2010). He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge (2006-07) and has received Columbia's Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award and an award for distinguished service to the Core Curriculum. He was an Alliance one-month visiting professor at Paris 1 in 2011.