Millsaps College Women's Tennis

Harris has served as the volunteer assistant to both the mens and womens teams since 2012. He plays a valuable role within the program not only as a coach on the court, but as an academic mentor to the players in the classroom. We are extremely lucky to have someone like Dr. Harris involved in the daily activities of our team. Very few programs have a person who knows the game of tennis this well and can help our student athletes navigate their academics like Dr. Harris says Head Coach Jason Box. Harris played tennis collegiately at Eastern Kentucky University.  As a senior at EKU, he was named team captain and finished as Ohio Valley Conference runner-up at No. 3 doubles. Dr. Harris is a professor of geology at Millsaps, specializing in near-surface geophysics. He has undergraduate degrees in geology (from Eastern Kentucky University) and geophysics (from the University of Houston) and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Kentucky. Harris teaches introductory geology courses and upper level courses in structural geology and geophysics. In addition, he has taught field courses in Southwest Montana, the Pacific Northwest, the Appalachians, Yellowstone, Alaska, and Scotland. Harris has developed an active field-based research program focused on seismic imaging of the shallow subsurface. He and his research students have been involved in numerous geophysical surveys centered on earthquake hazards of the lower Mississippi valley and high-resolution imaging at archaeological sites in Albania, Turkey, and the Yucatán Peninsula. Harris' expertise in geophysics is widely recognized. In recent years he has travelled to Italy to present an invited paper on near-surface seismic methods, and served as a keynote speaker for an international geophysics conference in China. In 2006 he was named Millsaps' Distinguished Professor, and in 2009 was recognized as the Mississippi Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Dr. Jamie Harris Volunteer Assistant Tennis Coach Dr. Jamie Harris has served as the volunteer assistant to both the mens and womens teams since 2012. He plays a valuable role within the program not only as a coach on the court, but as an academic mentor to the players in the classroom. We are extremely lucky to have someone like Dr. Harris involved in the daily activities of our team. Very few programs have a person who knows the game of tennis this well and can help our student athletes navigate their academics like Dr. Harris says Head Coach Jason Box. Harris played tennis collegiately at Eastern Kentucky University.  As a senior at EKU, he was named team captain and finished as Ohio Valley Conference runner-up at No. 3 doubles. Dr. Harris is a professor of geology at Millsaps, specializing in near-surface geophysics. He has undergraduate degrees in geology (from Eastern Kentucky University) and geophysics (from the University of Houston) and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Kentucky. Harris teaches introductory geology courses and upper level courses in structural geology and geophysics. In addition, he has taught field courses in Southwest Montana, the Pacific Northwest, the Appalachians, Yellowstone, Alaska, and Scotland. Harris has developed an active field-based research program focused on seismic imaging of the shallow subsurface. He and his research students have been involved in numerous geophysical surveys centered on earthquake hazards of the lower Mississippi valley and high-resolution imaging at archaeological sites in Albania, Turkey, and the Yucatán Peninsula. Harris' expertise in geophysics is widely recognized. In recent years he has travelled to Italy to present an invited paper on near-surface seismic methods, and served as a keynote speaker for an international geophysics conference in China. In 2006 he was named Millsaps' Distinguished Professor, and in 2009 was recognized as the Mississippi Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.