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The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences gained autonomy on the 23rd of January 1975. It operated as Section VI of the École pratique des hautes études until that date.
Lucien Febvre took the head of the newly formed section in 1947 after the Rockefeller Foundation supported its creation through initiatives dating back to the 1920s. The department was originally created in 1868 to train academic researchers.
Eight hundred thirty researchers work alongside three thousand students at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. This creates a student-faculty ratio of twenty-seven point six percent.
The school maintains exchange programs with Oxford University, Cambridge University, Columbia University, Yale University, Heidelberg University, Tokyo University, Kyoto University, Peking University, and the European University Institute. These connections support joint research units with the CNRS since 2014.
Scholars like Lucien Febvre and Fernand Braudel helped move the field beyond event-based analysis alone during the interwar period. Their influence began shaping official teaching of history in the 1960s while critics reproached them for ignoring politics.