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The University of Cambridge is a collegiate public research university in Cambridge, England. It was founded in 1209 after scholars left the University of Oxford for Cambridge following a dispute with local townspeople, and it received a royal charter from King Henry III in 1231. It is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and the third-oldest in continuous operation worldwide. It has thirty-one semi-autonomous constituent colleges and more than 150 departments, faculties and other institutions organised into six schools, and it houses the oldest university press in the world.

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The University of Cambridge is a collegiate public research university in Cambridge, England.
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In 1953, he became a lecturer at Cambridge University, and promoted to Reader in 1957.
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He is also a fellow of St John's College at the University of Cambridge.
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She was William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge from 1993 to 2008, and Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge from 1998 to 2009. == Early life == Marilyn Strathern was born to Eric Evans and Joyce Evans in North Wales on 6 March 1941.
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Bell also was the visiting Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at Cambridge University in 1987.
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Göran Therborn FAcSS (23 September 1941, Kalmar, Sweden) is a professor of sociology at Cambridge University. == Academic work == He has published widely in journals such as the New Left Review, and is notable for his writing on topics that fall within the general political and sociological framework of post-Marxism.
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Gellner served for 22 years as Professor of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics, eight years as the William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, and later headed the new Centre for the Study of Nationalism in Prague.
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He worked closely with Bruno Latour, with whom he wrote Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts (1979). == Education == Stephen Woolgar holds a BA (First Class Honours) in engineering and a PhD in sociology, both at the University of Cambridge. == Career == Woolgar was Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Human Sciences and director of CRICT (Centre for Research into Innovation, Culture and Technology) at Brunel University until 2000.
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He received his bachelor's degree from La Sierra University in 1987 and his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1991. == Academic career == After working as the editor of a newspaper in Temecula, California, Chartier enrolled at the UCLA School of Law, graduating with a J.D. in 2001.
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In 1960 he was elected to a Prize Fellowship in Sociology at King's College, Cambridge, the first position in sociology to be established in the University.
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He studied at the University of Glasgow and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with honours in classics (his dissertation was published years later as The Growth of Plato's Ideal Theory) and remained a Classics Fellow all his life.
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He attended Churchill College, Cambridge, initially studying natural sciences but shifting to anthropology (BA in Social Anthropology 1970, PhD 1976).
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In spring 2009 Ahmed was the Laurie New Jersey Chair in Women's Studies at Rutgers University and in Lent 2013 she was the Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Professor in Gender Studies at Cambridge University, where she conducted research on "Willful Women: Feminism and a History of Will".
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