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Estimated Number of Departments and Faculty Members, Fall 2012: New Disciplines Only

Data Source and Other Information
Source: Susan White, Raymond Chu, and Roman Czujko, The 2012–13 Survey of Humanities Departments at Four-Year Institutions (College Park, MD: Statistical Research Center, American Institute of Physics, 2014). Study conducted for the American Academy of Arts Sciences’ Humanities Indicators Project.
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For deeper cuts into the numbers for particular disciplines (typically providing numbers by Carnegie Classification type and institutional control), see the comparable tables for the disciplines of art history, classical studies, combined English and languages and literatures other than English, communication, English, folklore, history, history of science, languages and literatures other than English, linguistics, musicology, philosophy, and religion.
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