Professor Donald Sassoon
Emeritus Professor of Comparative European History
Email: d.sassoon@qmul.ac.uk
Profile
I was born in Cairo and educated in Paris, Milan, London and the USA. I obtained degrees from UCL and Penn State, and my PhD from Birkbeck under Eric Hobsbawm’s supervision. I taught at Queen Mary/ Westfield College all my life but also lectured at universities throughout Europe, Asia, Australia and North America, and spoken at conferences in over forty countries.