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| Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science | |
|---|---|
| Name | Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science |
| Established | 20th century |
| Type | Academic faculty |
| Location | Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| Parent | University of Cambridge |
Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science
The Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science functions as an interdisciplinary faculty at the University of Cambridge, combining approaches from Cambridge University Press, King's College, Cambridge, Trinity College, Cambridge, St John's College, Cambridge and other colleges to study human behavior, institutions, and societies across time and space. Its remit spans comparative analysis linked to subjects associated with Nelson Mandela, Margaret Thatcher, John Maynard Keynes, Hannah Arendt, and Michel Foucault, while drawing on methodologies resonant with work by Max Weber, Émile Durkheim, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Antonio Gramsci and Immanuel Kant.
The faculty integrates perspectives from disciplines historically connected to figures such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Adam Smith, Karl Marx and Alexis de Tocqueville, facilitating study that references institutions like United Nations, European Union, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, International Monetary Fund and World Bank. Teaching and research engage comparative cases involving 2019 United Kingdom general election, 2020 United States presidential election, French Fifth Republic, Russian Federation and People's Republic of China, and examine social movements linked to Suffragette movement, Civil Rights Movement, Arab Spring, Solidarity and Greenpeace.
The faculty's formation built on traditions traceable to intellectual debates around Enlightenment, the influence of British Empire, the aftermath of the First World War, the consequences of the Second World War, and postwar institutions such as UNESCO. Its evolution involved scholars associated with colleges like Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Queens' College, Cambridge and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and responded to events including the Suez Crisis, Cold War, decolonisation and the European integration process symbolized by the Treaty of Rome. The faculty expanded curricula in reaction to landmark works by John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Samuel P. Huntington, Francis Fukuyama and Amartya Sen.
The faculty houses departments and subfields that intersect with institutional actors and intellectual traditions, linking scholarship to entities such as Parliament of the United Kingdom, Supreme Court, International Criminal Court, European Court of Human Rights and World Health Organization. Departments examine case studies involving Gabon, India, Brazil, South Africa and Japan, and maintain thematic concentrations inspired by thinkers including Pierre Bourdieu, Jurgen Habermas, Herbert Spencer, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Niccolò Machiavelli. Administrative and research collaborations often engage with partners such as British Academy, Royal Society, Wellcome Trust and Economic and Social Research Council.
Undergraduate and graduate programs combine compulsory and elective modules referencing canonical texts and contemporary events like Magna Carta, Glorious Revolution, English Civil War, Industrial Revolution and Great Depression. Course offerings draw on methodologies aligned with scholarship by Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Stuart Hall, bell hooks and Frantz Fanon, while professional pathways prepare graduates for roles in institutions such as Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Department for International Development, European Commission, Amnesty International and Oxfam. Assessment formats reflect standards influenced by publications from Cambridge University Press, collaborations with Institute of Development Studies, and training linked to United Nations Development Programme.
Research centers affiliated with the faculty pursue projects connected to global challenges examined by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, International Labour Organization, World Trade Organization, Asian Development Bank and African Union. Centers investigate historical archives involving Domesday Book, Magna Carta and diplomatic records related to Treaty of Versailles and the Yalta Conference, and run comparative fieldwork in regions such as Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Funding and partnerships include grants from European Research Council, Leverhulme Trust, Ford Foundation and Gates Foundation, and collaborative initiatives with museums like the British Museum and libraries such as the Bodleian Library.
Admissions draw applicants from international contexts including United States, India, China, Nigeria and Brazil, with selection referencing prior study at institutions like Eton College, Westminster School, Phillips Academy, International School of Geneva and universities such as Harvard University, University of Oxford, University of California, Berkeley and London School of Economics. The student body engages in extracurricular activities connected to organizations such as Cambridge Union, Cambridge University Press societies, Student Union, United Nations Association and international networks including Model United Nations and Erasmus Programme.
Faculty and alumni have included scholars and public figures associated with landmark events and institutions such as the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, House of Commons, House of Lords, European Parliament and United Nations Security Council. Distinguished names connected through teaching, research or alumni networks encompass individuals linked to Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, Theresa May, Barack Obama, David Cameron, Jo Cox and academics recognized alongside Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler, Amartya Sen and Stephen Hawking.
Category:University of Cambridge faculties