Academic Ancestry

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Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Senegalese philosopherborn 1955

Wikidata names Jean-Toussaint Desanti as doctoral advisor, lists 2 doctoral students, names Jacques Derrida and Louis Althusser as teachers, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Souleymane Bachir Diagne, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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

    Jacques Derrida

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

    Louis Althusser

Taught1

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

    Abdoulaye Sounaye

    born 1967

The line above and below3 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.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 2 people: 2 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career8

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