Harriet Harris (academic)


Harriet Harris

Principal of Ripon College Cuddesdon
Harris gives evidence on proposed legislation to a Scottish Parliament committee in 2015.
ChurchChurch of England
Scottish Episcopal Church
Appointed2026
PredecessorHumphrey Southern
Previous postChaplain of the University of Edinburgh (2010–2025)
Orders
Ordination2000 (deacon)
2001 (priest)
Personal details
Born1968 (age 57–58)
DenominationAnglican
Alma materOriel College, Oxford (BA)
University of Oxford (DPhil)

Harriet Anne Harris MBE FRSE (born 1968) is an English theologian and Anglican priest. As a theologian, her 1998 monograph Fundamentalism and Evangelicals received multiple reviews. Since January 2026, she has been the principal of Ripon College Cuddesdon, a Church of England theological college. Before that, from 2010 to 2025, she was university chaplain and head of the multifaith chaplaincy service at the University of Edinburgh.