Professor Sir Simon Schama FBA
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2015
- Honours
- CBE
- Subjects
- History
- Sections
- Early Modern History to 1850
Summary
Simon Schama is a historian specialising in art history, Dutch history and French history. He wrote and presented five episodes of the 2018 BBC series, Civilisations.
Current post
University Professor of History and Art History, Columbia University
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Robert J. Mayhew FBA
The interface of historical geography and intellectual history, in particular the intellectual history of British geography books, demography and migration, c 1660-1900
Professor Suraiya Faroqhi FBA
Social history with a focus on the early modern Ottoman Empire (1500s to early 1800s), especially concerned with Istanbul and the towns of Anatolia; comparative history of artisans, using Ottoman archival records to analyse their social positions, the conditions under which they worked and the products of their labour
Professor Stuart Carroll FBA
Stuart works on the histories of violence, social relations, law, and the emotions in early modern Europe. He is currently working on the Invention of Civil Society, the sequel to Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe (2023).
