department of history
- noun
- /dɪˈpɑrtmənt əv ˈhɪstəri/
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departamento de historia
- So, for example, a student who chooses to enter the department of history might then choose to study with the chair of American history.
Examples
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Angela is the honorary professor in the Department of History and Welsh History of Aberystwyth University.
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Susan Lindy is professor and chair of the department of history at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Patrick McCray is an assistant professor in the department of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Academic text (2003) -
Susan Lindy is professor and chair of the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
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A noted trend is that those holding tenure-track positions in departments of history are often cross-appointed to other departments.
Academic text (2009) -
Rebecca Wingo, a graduate student in the department of history at the University of Nebraska, conducted research on the images for the attached gallery.
Blog text (15) -
Dr. Hart is an assistant professor in the department of history at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Rebecca Wingo, a graduate student in the department of history at the University of Nebraska, conducted research on historical artifacts.
Synonyms
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A part of a school or university that teaches and studies the past
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
department + of + history
The meaning 'an academic division responsible for teaching and researching history' is directly and compositionally derived from 'department' (a specialized academic field) + 'of' + 'history' (the scholarly field); the noun + of + noun genitive pattern clearly signals domain membership. This is a common, cross-linguistic structure and would be readily interpretable by a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Department of history comes from universities dividing subjects into parts called departments, and one part is for history, the study of the past. So, department of history means the part of a college or university where teachers and students 'teach' and 'study' past events.