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Faculty Of History, University Of Cambridge
The Faculty of History is one of the constituent departments of the University of Cambridge. Teaching and research of history has centuries old roots at Cambridge and the first Regius Professorship of Modern History was established by King George I in 1724. The History Faculty is one of the largest history departments in the world with well over a hundred faculty members. Each academic year a new intake more than two hundred undergraduates is admitted and the Faculty also has more than 450 graduate students studying for masters degrees and the PhD. Cambridge's History Faculty is consistently ranked as one of the best history faculties in the world and is almost always ranked first in the UK. It is notable among Cambridge's faculties for the influence of its alumni in public life. The Faculty is divided into eight subject groups (i.e. areas of research and teaching): American History; Ancient and Medieval History; Early Modern History; Economic, Social and Cultural History; Mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidgwick Site
The Sidgwick Site is one of the largest sites within the University of Cambridge, England. Overview and history The Sidgwick Site is located on the western side of Cambridge city centre, near the Backs. The site is north of Sidgwick Avenue and south of West Road, and is home to several of the university's arts and humanities faculties. The site is named after the philosopher Henry Sidgwick, who studied at Cambridge in the 19th century. The site as it is now has its origins in plans drawn up by Casson and Conder in 1952 for making use of land to the west of the Cambridge city centre which was previously used mainly for sports. Much of the site's current architecture derives from these original plans. However, many faculty buildings, especially to the north of the site, have been designed by separate architects with little reference to the coherence of the site as a whole. In July 2002, the old Faculty of English, a converted Victorian villa, was demolished, and a more prac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctoral Thesis
A thesis ( : theses), or dissertation (abbreviated diss.), is a document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings.International Standard ISO 7144: DocumentationâPresentation of theses and similar documents International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, 1986. In some contexts, the word "thesis" or a cognate is used for part of a bachelor's or master's course, while "dissertation" is normally applied to a doctorate. This is the typical arrangement in American English. In other contexts, such as within most institutions of the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, the reverse is true. The term graduate thesis is sometimes used to refer to both master's theses and doctoral dissertations. The required complexity or quality of research of a thesis or dissertation can vary by country, university, or program, and the required minimum study period may thus vary significantly in du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dixie Professor Of Ecclesiastical History
The Dixie Professorship of Ecclesiastical History is one of the senior professorships in history at the University of Cambridge. Lord Mayor of London in the 16th century, Sir Wolstan Dixie, left funds to found both scholarships and fellowships at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. In 1878 the fellowships were abolished and replaced by the professorship that still bears his name. Dixie Professors * Mandell Creighton (1884) * Henry Melvill Gwatkin (1891-1912) * James Pounder Whitney (1919-1939) * Norman Sykes FBA (1944) * William Owen Chadwick (1958) * Ernest Gordon Rupp Ernest Gordon Rupp (1910–1986) was a Methodist preacher, historian and Luther scholar. Early life and education Rupp was born on 7 January 1910 in London and attended Owen's School in Islington. He studied history at King's College London ... (1968) * Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke (1977) * Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-Smith (1994) * David James Maxwell (2011) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Professor of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samita Sen
Samita Sen is an Indian historian and academic. Having previously taught at the University of Calcutta and Jadavpur University, she has been Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge since 2018. Early life and education Sen studied history at the University of Calcutta, graduating with Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Master of Arts (MA) degrees. She then studied at the University of Cambridge, completing her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1992. Her doctoral thesis was titled "Women workers in the Bengal jute industry, 1890-1940: migration, motherhood and militancy". Academic career Sen was a Prize Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge between 1990 and 1994. From 1994 to 2018, she taught history at the University of Calcutta, and women's studies at Jadavpur University. She reached the rank of Reader at Calcutta and professor at Jadavpur. She was Dean of the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies at Jadavpur University from 2016 to 2018. Add ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vere Harmsworth Professor Of Imperial And Naval History
The Vere Harmsworth Professorship of Imperial and Naval History is one of the senior professorships in history at the University of Cambridge. After the Beit Professorship of Colonial History at Oxford (founded in 1905) and the Rhodes Professorship of Imperial History at King's College London (founded in 1919), it is the third oldest chair in its subject in the world. In 1919 Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere endowed a "Professorship of Naval History" at Cambridge with a donation of ÂŁ20,000, in memory of his son Vere who was killed at the Battle of Ancre in November 1916. In 1932 the Royal Empire Society successfully campaigned for Cambridge to accept the renaming of the chair to "The Professorship of Imperial and Naval History", under which rubric a new professor was appointed in 1934. Among the holders of this prestigious chair, only Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond has specialized in naval history, while the others have tended to be scholars of imperial history. Vere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saul Dubow
Saul H. Dubow, (born 28 October 1959) is a South African historian and academic, specialising in the history of South Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Since 2016, he has been the Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at the University of Cambridge and a Professorial Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He previously taught at University of Sussex and Queen Mary, University of London. Early life and education Dubow was born on 28 October 1959 in Cape Town, South Africa. He studied at the University of Cape Town, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1981. He then moved to England to undertake postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford. As a member of St Antony's College, Oxford, he completed his Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in 1986. His doctoral thesis was titled "Segregation and 'native administration' in South Africa, 1920-1936", which formed the basis for his first book, Racial Segregation and the Origins of Apartheid (1989). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smuts Professor Of Commonwealth History
The Smuts Professorship of Commonwealth History was established on 25 October 1952 as the Smuts Professorship of the History of the British Commonwealth; it was retitled in 1994. The professorship is assigned to the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge.Venn Cambridge University database List of Smuts Professors of Commonwealth History * Philip Nicholas Seton Mansergh (1953-1970) * Eric Thomas Stokes (1970-1981) * Donald Anthon ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John H
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professor Of Medieval History (Cambridge)
The Professorship of Medieval History is a professorship in medieval history at the University of Cambridge. It was founded on 1 May 1937. The professorship is assigned to the Faculty of History. List of Professors of Medieval History The following have held the chair: * 1937–1942: Charles William Previté-Orton * 1944–1946: Zachary Nugent Brooke * 1947–1954: David Knowles * 1955–1972: Christopher Robert Cheney * 1972–1978: Walter Ullmann * 1978–1988: James Clarke Holt * 1988–1999: Richard Barrie Dobson * 1999–2016: Rosamond McKitterick * 2016–present: John H. Arnold References {{DEFAULTSORT:Professor of Medieval History, *, Cambridge Medieval History In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire a ... Medieval History, *, Cambridge 1937 esta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Gerstle
Gary Gerstle (born 1954) is an American historian and academic. He is the Paul Mellon Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. Early life Gary Gerstle received his BA from Brown University in 1976 and his PhD from Harvard University in 1982. Academic career Gerstle taught at Catholic University of America and Princeton University, before moving to the University of Maryland, where he was Director of the Center for Historical Studies (2000–2003) and Chair of the Department of History (2003–2006). He joined the Department of History faculty at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee in 2006. In the 2012/2013 academic year, he was the Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at the University of Oxford. As of October 2014, he is Paul Mellon Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge. He is one of the USA's leading historians of race, citizenship and American nationhood. A historian of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Mellon Professor Of American History
The Paul Mellon Professorship of American History is a senior professorship at the University of Cambridge. It was established in 1980 with funds from Paul Mellon family fortune and has been held by several notable American, British, and Canadian academics and public intellectuals since its creation. The position is sufficiently endowed so as to be a permanent academic post at the University of Cambridge. The Paul Mellon Professor of American History serves both as a scholar and as a cross-cultural leader, advancing and deepening US-British academic and diplomatic connections. As of 2016, the Paul Mellon Professor of American History is held by Dr. Gary Gerstle at the University of Cambridge. List of Paul Mellon Professors of American History * 1982–1990 Charlotte Erickson * 1992–2014 Tony Badger * 2014– Gary Gerstle Gary Gerstle (born 1954) is an American historian and academic. He is the Paul Mellon Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge, and a F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Christopher Clark
Sir Christopher Munro Clark (born 14 March 1960) is an Australian historian living in the United Kingdom and Germany. He is the twenty-second Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge. In 2015, he was knighted for his services to Anglo-German relations. Education and academic positions Clark was educated at Sydney Grammar School from 1972 to 1978, the University of Sydney (where he studied history) and the Freie Universität Berlin from 1985 to 1987. Clark received his PhD at the University of Cambridge, having been a member of Pembroke College from 1987 to 1991. He is Professor in Modern European History at the University of Cambridge and, since 1991, has been a fellow of St Catharine's College, where he is currently Director of Studies in History. In 2003, Clark was appointed University Lecturer in Modern European History and, in 2006, Reader in Modern European History. His Cambridge University professorship in history followed in 2008. In September ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
