Joe Harris

Joseph Daniel Harris (born August 17, 1951) is the Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. He specializes in the field of algebraic geometry. After earning an AB from Harvard College he continued at Harvard to study for a PhD under Phillip Griffiths.

Work During the 1980s, he was on the faculty of Brown University, moving to Harvard in 1988. Geometry of Algebraic Curves, Vol. 1 , with Enrico Arbarello, Maurizio Cornalba, and Phillip Griffiths , with William Fulton

, with David Eisenbud

Moduli of Curves , with Ian Morrison. Fat Chance: Probability from 0 to 1, with Benedict Gross and Emily Riehl, 2019 As of 2018, Harris has supervised 50 PhD students, including Lucia Caporaso, Brendan Hassett, James McKernan, Rahul Pandharipande, Zvezdelina Stankova, and Ravi Vakil.