What is the difference between a professor and a dr of history?

Question

In unis why are some people dr's and some professors of history? how do you become a professor?

Answer 1

professsors arew more highly qualified than docors

doctors are qualified to PHd level

professors to - cannot remember

Answer 2

Dr is an academic qualification. All people who have successfully submitted PhD thesis to an University will be awarded Doctor of philosophy. Then they will be using Dr. Title before their names.

Where as Professor is highest position one can attain in academics  by virtue qualification and experience. Professors they use Prof before their names.

Like Prof.John. if he is qualified PhD then Prof.John PhD or Dr. John Professor  

Answer 3

a professor is an appointment, usually at a university, indicating that the person is a senior respected academic. its often more of a managerial and administrative role that a teaching role, they may well be head of that department, or that entity.

a professor may well have a doctorate (a PhD), but not necessarily so

a Doctorate usually indicates that someone has studied the subject beyond undergraduate level and they amy or may not have studied to  "Masters" level. In a university context many lecturers and tutors are PhD's or Masters in their subject

Professor is often an honorific title

eg Professor R.V. Jones, or Dr R.V.Jones

where their qualificiations will be added after the surname, often

eg

Prof R.V.Jones Bsc(Hons), MSc, Phd etc,,,

followed by any memberships of professional bodies

BSc.. a undergraduate level degree in Science

Ba a undergraduate level degree in the Arts

Msc postgraduate level degree in Sciences

Phd doctorate level qualification

Answer 4

The term professor commonly has two applications: one is a more-or-less honorary term of reference.  More importantly, colleges and universities often categorize their teaching positions with terms such as instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, full professor, etc. Very (most?) often the professorship is limited to persons holding a PhD from an accredited institution of higher learning, but that is not essential.  Depending on a particular educator's ego, he/she might be particular about their Titles and might prefer being referred to as Doctor, whereas another person might prefer Professor (since it is possible, I imagine, for someone to hold a PhD and be just an Instructor).  Others, who are confident enough in themselves that they don't need titles, might be content being called by just their names or the title Mister/Missus.  It's that same, no matter what their field, be it history or biology or economics, or anything.

Answer 5

after you have done a PhD you become a doctor.  To become a professor you have to apply for a professors position, but you also need to have a lot more experience than a doctor and I think also perhaps a certain number of publications.  

Answer 6

A full professor is a head of department.  It is the most senior teaching post at a university in the USA, the UK, Europe and throughout the world.  Less senior teaching staff have different titles in different countries.  In the US you have associate professors and assistant professors and lecturers.  In the UK we have senior lecturers, lecturers, assistant lecturers.  We don't usually have associate or assistant professors.

A professor is expected to be a recognzied authority in his/her subject.  These days it is usual for a full professor to hold a doctorate as well as master's and bachelor's degrees.  In the past in the UK at the ancient universities of Oxford and Cambridge some professors never bothered to take a doctorate.  They did research, they wrote learned papers and published books, and were recognized by their peers as being experts.  So they got  to be professor with only an MA.  This is becoming increasingly less likely.  Some of the newer universities in the UK will not consider anyone for a full-time lecturer's post unless they have a PhD.

There is no such thing as a doctor of history.  Professor of history, yes.  But Dr. of history, no.  In the US and in the UK you would take a doctorate in philosphy (PhD or DPhil) in history. You don't take classes or exams for a PhD.  You do some original independent research in your chosen subject and write it up as a thesis of around 100,000 words.  It is assessed by senior staff in the university department who are recognized authorities in your subject.Your thesis has to make a new, original contribution to knowledge in your subject.

In the US the PhD is the highest earned degree you can get.  In the UK the PhD is a lower doctorate and you could go on to take a Doctor of Letters degree (DLitt) in history, which is a higher doctorate.  This would be awarded for distinguished published research in your subject over many years, which would show you to be an acknowledged authority.