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
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