CONTRIBUTOR:

Max Harris

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Emeritus Fellow

DEPARTMENT:

Institute for Research in the Humanities

INSTITUTION:

University of Wisconsin—Madison

BIOGRAPHY:

Max Harris received his B.A. from Cambridge University, his M.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. He is Fellow Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Institute for Research in the Humanities, and the author of six books, including Aztecs, Moors, and Christians: Festivals of Reconquest in Mexico and Spain ((University of Texas Press, 2000), Carnival and Other Christian Festivals: Folk Theology and Folk Performance (University of Texas Press, 2003), Sacred Folly: A New History of the Feast of Fools (Cornell University Press, 2011), and Christ on a Donkey: Palm Sunday, Troumphal Entries, and Blasphemous Pageants (Amsterdam University Press, 2019).