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Alex Harris

Professor of the Practice Emeritus of Public Policy
Sanford School of Public Policy
Box 90802, Durham, NC 27708-0802
1317 W Pettigrew St, Durham, NC 27705

Selected Publications


Why We Are Here: Capturing the Spirit of Mobile Alabama

Journal Article NPR PICTURE SHOW · 2013 Featured Publication Cite

Book about Mobile Explores Why We Are Here

Journal Article Tuscaloosa News · 2013 Featured Publication Cite

Why We Are Here: Mobile and The Spirit of A Southern City

Book · October 2012 Entranced by Edward O. Wilson’s mesmerizing evocation of his Southern childhood in The Naturalist and Anthill, Alex Harris approached the scientist about collaborating on a book about Wilson’s native world of Mobile, Alabama. Perceiving that Mobile was a c ... Cite

Cover to Cover

Journal Article The Atlantic Magazine · September 2012 Featured Publication In this book, the great naturalist E. O. Wilson, who grew up in Mobile, and the photographer Alex Harris evoke and explore that exceptional city and its surroundings. ... Cite

Why We Are Here: Mobile and the Spirit of a Southern City

Journal Article Harvard Magazine · September 2012 Featured Publication Naturalist Wilson’s memoir of his Alabama family and childhood, and of the downs and ups of his emotional home, is beautifully accompanied by the Duke documentary photographer’s images. ... Cite

Southern Spirit

Journal Article The Mobile Bay Monthly · 2012 Featured Publication “Why We Are Here” presents Wilson’s introspective meditation on his local history, with accompanying color photographs, captions, and an eloquent short essay by Harris, who teaches at Duke University. Taken in toto, the book is these two men’s attempt to, ... Cite

Les musés sont des mondes

Book · November 2011 Cite

Cuba Through the Windshield

Journal Article Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies · 2011 Featured Publication Cite

Pilgrimage to Katrina

Chapter · November 2010 This is the first retrospective exhibition devoted to French Ralph Eugene Meatyard (1925-1972), visionary genius whose work deeply influenced American photography of the 1960 and 1970. Also presented for the first time in France, surrealist works of Claren ... Cite

New Mexico photographs

Chapter · October 2010 Migration is a journey across America viewing this country through the eyes of our most astute observers, our finest photographers ... Cite

Cuba Libre

Journal Article Dutch Esquire · June 2007 Cite

Game Boy

Journal Article Russian Esquire · May 2007 Cite

River of Traps: A Mountain Life

Book · 2007 http://tupress.trinity.edu/ ... Cite

The Idea of Cuba

Book · 2007 http://alex-harris.com/main/ ... Cite

Life Begins at Sixty-Five

Journal Article In Character: A Journal of Everyday Virtues · 2005 Cite

Outside the Ordinary

Journal Article Aperture Magazine · 2004 Cite

Blue Sky

Journal Article · December 2003 Cite

Have Tools, Will Travel

Journal Article Mother Jones Magazine · January 2003 Cite

Fostering Hope

Journal Article Mother Jones Magazine · April 2002 Cite

Inside Cars

Journal Article 2wice Magazine · 2002 Cite

Islas En El Tiempo

Book · September 2000 Cite

SLEEPING-BEAUTY - MEMORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY IN AMERICA - BURNS,SB

Journal Article NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW · July 28, 1991 Link to item Cite

The Life and Times of Solomon Butcher

Journal Article a book review for the New York Times Book Review · 1991 Cite

Decatur County: Pual Kwilecki's Lifetime Document

Journal Article San Francisco Camerawork Quarterly · July 1987 Cite

In the Street

Book · 1987 Cite

The Last and First Eskimos

Book · October 1978 Cite

Who’s Idea of Cuba

Journal Article ReVista Fall/2009 Featured Publication A review of my book The Idea of Cuba in in this quarterly publication of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard ... Cite

Why We Are Here: Mobile and the Spirit of A Southern City

Journal Article Publisher’s Weekly Featured Publication Pulitzer Prize–winning naturalist and Harvard professor Wilson (On Human Nature) and acclaimed photographer and Duke University professor Harris (River of Traps) team up to convey the spirit of Mobile, Ala., through text and images. ... Cite