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Title: Christina Phelps Harris papers
Date (inclusive): 1914-1973
Collection Number: 79085
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
14 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 microfilm box, 1 oversize folder
(6.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Writings, correspondence, lecture notes, printed matter, and photographs, relating to political conditions in the twentieth-century
Middle East, European intellectual history, and political science.
Creator:
Harris, Christina Phelps, 1902-1972
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Box 16 may not be used without permission of the Archivist. The remainder of the collection is open for research; materials
must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection,
they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1979.
[Identification of item], Christina Phelps Harris papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
| 1902 | Born in New York City, New York |
| 1919-1920 | Attended the Sorbonne in Paris |
| 1920-1922 | Attended Wellesley College |
| 1925 | A.B., History and Latin, Barnard College |
| 1930 | Ph.D., Modern European History, Columbia University |
| 1930-1934 | Traveled to Lebanon, Syria, and Egypt |
| 1937 | Author, The Syrian Desert: Caravans, Travel and Exploration |
| 1938-1939 | Instructor, Middle Eastern History, Extension Division, McGill University |
| 1942-1946 | Associate Professor of History and College Dean, Bryn Mawr College |
| 1943 | Co-Author, This Age of Conflict: A Contemporary World History, 1914-1943 |
| 1944 | Specialist on Syria and Lebanon, Division of Territorial Studies (wartime leave to U.S. Department of State) |
| 1946-1947 | Specialist, Arab World Division of Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of State |
| 1948-1957 | Middle East Curator and Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace |
| 1951-1967 | Professor, Stanford University |
| 1957-1967 | Departmental Editor of Near Eastern History, Encyclopaedia Britannica |
| 1964 | Author, Nationalism and Revolution in Egypt |
| 1972 | Death |
| 1939-1942 | Associate Professor in History and Assistant to the Dean, Barnard College |
| 1930 | Author, The Anglo-American Peace Movement in the Mid-Nineteenth Century |
Scope and Content of Collection
The Christina Phelps Harris papers include writings, correspondence, lecture notes, printed matter, and photographs related
to political conditions in the twentieth-century Middle East, European intellectual history, and political science.
Harris was a historian, professor, and curator with a subject specialty in the Middle East. The bulk of the materials relate
to her work for Stanford University, where she was a professor and curator of the Hoover Institution's Middle East collection.
The collection also includes her extensive research files, with typed notes on various writings related to the Middle East.
Although the collection is not arranged, thirteen series have been identified as part of a survey of the collection. The container
listing can serve as a guide to the materials.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Political science
Middle East -- Politics and government
Europe -- History