Dr. John Harries

Biography

John Harries is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Learning and Teaching at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, where he has been a faculty member since September 2013. He received his PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh in 2002. Dr. Harries has previously held teaching positions at the Crichton Campus, University of Glasgow, and the University of Edinburgh's Centre of Canadian Studies and the School of Health and Social Science. His research interests focus on issues of memory, materiality, and identity, particularly in the context of settler colonialism and the politics of belonging in Newfoundland, Canada. His recent work engages with processes of redress and the return of ancestral remains, addressing the ethical and political dimensions associated with institutional collections of human remains. He is a founding member of the Bones Collective, a network that explores the emotive materiality of human remains and conducts collaborative arts interventions. His interests also include supervising research on Indigeneity, contentious heritage, and interspecies conviviality.

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