Professor Donald Sassoon was born in Cairo and was educated in Paris, Milan, London and the United States. He obtained his first degree in 1969 from University College London, his MA from the Pennsylvania State University, and his PhD from Birkbeck College. He taught at Westfield College, University of London until its merger with Queen Mary. He has lectured at universities throughout Europe, Asia, Australia and North America, spoken at conferences in thirty countries and is frequently interviewed by the international media.
In 1999 he was Visiting Professor at the University of Trento, Italy. In 2000 he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Remarque Institute at New York University and during 2002 he was Senior Research Fellow at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris. In the Fall of 2009 was the Samuel Wood Brooks Visiting Fellow in English Literature at the University of Queensland. He is a member of the Queen Mary Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought.
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