Trained in Tudor-Stuart English history, Barbara Harris’s research and writing in the last two decades has focused on English aristocratic women in the period 1450-1550. Following a series of articles on the subject, she published English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550: Marriage and Family, Property and Careers with Oxford University Press in 2002. She was arwarded Mellon Emeritus Fellowship in 2008. Her current project, called The Fabric of Piety: Aristocratic Women and Care of the Dead, 1450-1550, is looking at the same group of women in another context: as patrons of building in churches. The first article will be in the Journal of British Studies in April 2009. From 1990-1993, Harris was President of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. She is now President of the North American Conference of British Studies.