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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
International 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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Sanjay Subrahmanyam FBA

History of South Asia and the Indian Ocean world; early modern empires and their interaction in the framework of 'connected histories'

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Professor Simon Schaffer FBA

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Professor Ian Maclean FBA

History

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