Prior to the professionalization of history as
a distinct academic discipline, the professors of ecclesiastical (church) history at the major Scottish universities taught a subject slightly different than that which likely comes to mind when we think of Church history today.
Clauset and co-authors reported on the conclusions they drew from «complete and hand - curated data on the placements of nearly 19,000 tenure - track or tenured faculty, among 461 North American departmental or school - level
academic units, in the
disciplines of computer science, business, and history -LSB-, which]... represent highly
distinct scholastic traditions.»