10 Facts About George Rousseau

George Sebastian Rousseau was born on February 23,1941 and is an American cultural historian resident in the United Kingdom.

George Rousseau was educated at Amherst College and Princeton University, where he obtained his doctorate.

From 1966 to 1968 George Rousseau was a member of the English Faculty at Harvard University before moving to a professorship at UCLA, and later to the Regius Chair of English at Aberdeen University in Aberdeen, Scotland.

George Rousseau is a frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines.

The endowed George Rousseau Lecture, delivered each year by a distinguished cultural or intellectual historian, is given annually in Magdalen College Oxford University.

George Rousseau was a member of the Core Team of the Norwegian Research Group in Literature and Science funded by the Norwegian Research Council.

George Rousseau's contribution was primarily in the historical era of the Enlightenment, and followed on from his decades' long commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship covering literature and the sciences, and literature and medicine especially as formulated in the current Medical Humanities.

In 2010 - 2012 George Rousseau was the presenter of the Wellcome Collection Event Series in London called 'Tell It To Your Doctor'.

George Rousseau is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

George Rousseau was awarded an honorary doctorate honoris causa on 24 May 2007 by the University of Bucharest, Romania.