Who taught the people who taught you?
Type a name. See who taught them, whom they taught, and who examined the theses between.
2,484,162 theses · 235 sources in 29 countries · 400,929 advisor statements in Wikidata on 2026-10-08
or start from a placea schooltoday's pair
Record picks the deepest chain, the widest fan-out
New tonight what last night's harvest brought
Where the record stops your advisor is missing?
the sheet reads one Wikidata statement, doctoral advisor (P184), and the thesis repositories the count line names. the record is thin before 1990 and outside Europe and North America, and an open ring is the end of the record, not evidence of no students. to add a link: find the student's item, add the statement doctoral advisor pointing at the advisor's item, and cite the thesis record. the sheet reads it on its next fetch.
Assistants and accounts connect your assistant, keep your settings
an assistant can ask for you what these pages answer: who taught whom, how two people are related, where the record stops. add Academic Ancestry as a connector in it at one of these addresses and sign in there with ORCID, Google or GitHub, which makes an account. ORCID is the one to pick: the identity academics already hold.
https://academicancestry.org/mcp/orcid/ · https://academicancestry.org/mcp/google/ · https://academicancestry.org/mcp/github/
sign in here too, under the same account, and the sheet's settings and the people you looked at follow you to any browser: . the terms for accounts say what an account keeps and how much it may ask.