Timothy Brook

Timothy James Brook (Chinese name: 卜正民; born January 6, 1951) is a Canadian historian, sinologist, and writer specializing in the study of China (sinology). 2010 D. Litt., honoris causa, University of Warwick 2010 Prix Auguste Pavie, Académie des sciences d'outre-mer, Paris, for Le Chapeau de Vermeer 2009 Mark Lynton Prize in History, Columbia University School of Journalism and Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, for Vermeer's Hat 2009 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Association, for Death by a Thousand Cuts 2006 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship 2005 François-Xavier Garneau Medal, Canadian Historical Association., for The Confusions of Pleasure 2000 Joseph Levenson Prize, Association for Asian Studies, for The Confusions of Pleasure

Awards In 2009, Vermeer's Hat won Brook the Mark Lynton History Prize from Columbia University in New York, worth $10,000 (U.S.). The prize is one of the Lukas Prize Project awards.