Simon Schama

professor, history, Columbia University

Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History. He taught history at Cambridge (1966-76), Oxford (1976-1980) and art history and history at Harvard (1980-1993) before coming to Columbia. He has also taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and has delivered the George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures at Cambridge, the Tanner Lectures and the Finzi-Contini Lecture at Yale on the epic tradition in English history. Last fall he delivered the Andrew Mellon Lectures on the Visual Arts at the National Gallery in Washington on "Really Old Masters: Late Style from Titian to de Kooning". His books have been translated into fifteen languages and include *Patriots and Libeators: Revolution and Government in the Netherlands 1780-1813* (1977); *Two Rothschilds and the Land of Israel *(1979) , *The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age*; (1987) *Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution* (1989), *Landscape and Memory *(1995); *Rembrandt's Eyes* (1999); the *History of Britain* trilogy (2000-2002); *Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution *(2006), and *The Power of Art* (2007). In 1991 he published the twinned novellas, *Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations*.