Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Michel Charbonneau

Canadian politicianborn 1948

Wikidata names Carolyne M. Van Vliet as doctoral advisor and names Carolyne M. Van Vliet as teacher. Linked to Wikidata and Wikipedia.

Open the full sheetCiteData

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

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors1

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

The line above and below4 steps

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.

Education and career1

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