Harry was a Visiting Fellow at the Middle East Centre between 2019–20 while he was an ESRC postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford. Harry completed his PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science, supported by the Economic and Social Research Council in February 2018, before spending a year as a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of the West of England. 

Harry's research focuses on the emotional politics of emerging forms of precarious work in Cairo, Egypt. His PhD work, later published with Stanford University Press as The Labor of Hope: Meritocracy and Precarity in Egypt (2023), argues that the practices of hope-making among educated underemployed young men in Cairo constitute a form of emotional labour which enables their continued exploitation and legitimises urban inequalities in Cairo. He is now working on a follow-up project on the emotional politics of emerging gig economy work in Cairo.