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Simon Schama Simon Schama is currently a Professor at Columbia University. From 1995 to 1998 he was art critic and cultural essayist for the New Yorker magazine. His art criticism won the National Magazine Award in 1996. He is also winner of the Wolfson Prize for History for Patriots and Liberators: Revolution and Government in the Netherlands 1780-1813 (1977); of the NCP Prize for Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution (1989); and the WH Smith Literary Award for Landscape and Memory (1995). His other major books include Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations (1991), The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age (1987), and Rembrandt's Eyes (1999). Simon Schama was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was Fellow from 1966 to 1976 before moving to Brasenose College, Oxford as Fellow and Tutor in Modern History. From 1980 to 1993 he was Mellon Professor of Social Sciences and William R. Keenan Professor in the Humanities at Harvard University and Senior Associate at the Centre of European Studies. He has also taught at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and his work has been translated into ten languages. Simon Schama has written and presented television documentaries on Rembrandt and Landscape and Memory for the BBC. He is currently writing and presenting a sixteen-part History of Britain for the BBC. The first volume of the accompanying book A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? was published to great critical acclaim in October 2000, with Volumes II and III following in 2001 and 2002. Schama teaches the short e-course Liberty and Slavery in the Early British Empire, offered by Columbia University on Fathom. | |||||||||||||||
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