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Professor Sir Simon Schama FBA

Early modern European social, political and cultural history; history of the Jewish people; history of art and culture

Elected 2015

Fellow type
Corresponding Fellow
Year elected
2015
Honours
CBE
Sections
Early Modern History to 1850

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

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