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...Schama was one of the department's most prized assets--a best-selling author with an international reputation and one of the Faculty's most consistently popular professors. His departure widens a growing gap in many fields of European history and culture...
...losing a very gifted and unique person," says Ozment. "Schama gets the undergraduates' attention. He draws them from other concentrations...
...Schama's interests span a wide range of historic, geographic and thematic areas of study, students and professors say. "There are few historians who move intellectually over as many subjects and parts of the world as Professor Schama has been able to do," says Professor of History James Hankins...
...department, Schama's departure signals a greater urgency to fill four senior positions that have been empty for more than a year...
...Schama's History Department colleagues express the hope that Schama will return after only a short stay at Columbia--chances for which are "slim," in Ozment's words...