Professor Sir Simon Schama FBA
Early modern European social, political and cultural history; history of the Jewish people; history of art and culture
- 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 Deborah Howard FBA
The art and architecture of Venice and the Veneto; Renaissance architectural history and theory; the relationship between Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean; and music and architecture in the Renaissance
Professor Ulinka Rublack FBA
Cultural, social and religious history of the early modern world, comparative work on Protestantism and on material culture, with a focus on Germany
