Emma Tanya Harris

Director of Grants Management and Alumni Relations, Woolf Institute, United Kingdom

Emma Tanya Harris is director of grants management and alumni relations at the Woolf Institute in Cambridge, UK, which she joined in 2011. Previously, she was the director of studies, leading the strategic and operational plans for teaching and public engagement. She managed the Diversity in End-of-Life Care training program and led the publication of its accompanying handbook. Dr. Harris has been involved in interfaith teaching for Cambridge Theological Federation’s students training for Christian ministry. Since 2020 she has engaged with BYU students in her online course Representations of Jewish-Christian Relations in Literature. For the past two summers, she and the Woolf Institute’s executive director, Dr. Esther-Miriam Wagner, have welcomed BYU students to Cambridge for the summer program Religion and Society from the Medieval to the Modern. Dr. Harris holds a PhD from University College London on Anglo-Jewry’s experience of secondary education from the 1830s until 1920.