Faculty of History, University of Cambridge

The faculty building on theSidgwick Site
Type	History
Parent institution	University of Cambridge
Location	Cambridge , Cambridgeshire , England
Website	www.hist.cam.ac.uk

TheFaculty of History is one of the constituent departments of theUniversity 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. It is notable among Cambridge's faculties for the influence ofits 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; Modern British History; Modern European History; Political Thought And Intellectual History; and World History.^[1]

Atundergraduate level, the faculty offers three courses (known astripos) that result in aBachelor of Arts (BA) degree. These are the Historical Tripos, the History and Politics Tripos, and the History and Modern Languages Tripos.^[2]

Atpostgraduate level, the faculty offers three types of degrees:Master of Philosophy (MPhil),Master of Studies (MSt), andDoctor of Philosophy (PhD).^[3] The MPhils are 9 month to one year courses, consisting of taught courses and a research dissertation; there are eight MPhils, one for each of the eight subject groups.^[4] The MSt is a two year part-time course, consisting of taught modules and a research dissertation: it is jointly taught by the Faculty of History and theInstitute of Continuing Education.^[3][5] The PhD is a research course, taking 3–4 years full-time and 5–7 years part-time, and resulting in adoctoral thesis of 80,000 words.^[6]

There are a number ofprofessorships, including endowed chairs, within the department:

• Regius Professor of History (currentlySir Christopher Clark)^[7]
• Paul Mellon Professor of American History (currentlyMia Bay)
• Professor of Medieval History (currentlyJohn H. Arnold)^[8]
• Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History (currentlySaul Dubow)^[9]
• Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History (currentlySamita Sen)^[10]
• Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History (currentlyDavid Maxwell)^[11]

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