Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Malcolm Bilson

American pianist and musicologistborn 1935

Supervised 1 doctoral student at Cornell University; Wikidata names György Sándor and Reine Gianoli as teachers and lists 4 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 3 other registers.

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Malcolm Bilson, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Students1

Teachers and mentors2

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    György Sándor

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Reine Gianoli

Taught4

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Ursula Duetschler

    born 1962
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Florent Albrecht

    born 1975
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Kristian Bezuidenhout

    born 1979
  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Szilvia Elek

The line above and below

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

    Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 1 person: 1 cited by thesis records.

    Education and career1

    From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.

    Sat beside the lineage2

    committee member, not advisor