Tori Harris

Biography

Victoria M. Harris, Houston, is a senior at the University of Chicago, where she majors in Anthropology and Creative Writing. Tori’s academic work as an archaeologist aims to excavate the legacy of the African diaspora. Originally from Tulsa, Okla., she began conducting archaeological research at the age of 16 on the Tulsa Race Massacre. Since then, she has worked in New Orleans and Chicago as a research assistant for the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies and the Chicago History Museum. Tori’s creative writing, including a selection of poems and short stories, has been published in select magazines. In her free time, she performs as a violinist with the University Chamber Orchestra of the University of Chicago and runs the Seabird Writing Conference, an intercollegiate creative writing community. At Oxford, Tori hopes to pursue an M.Sc. in African Studies followed by an M.Sc. in Archaeology.