Immanuel Wallerstein: advisors and students

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Immanuel Wallerstein

American sociologist and economic historian1930 to 2019

Supervised 4 doctoral students (6 students at any level) at McGill University; Wikidata names Robert Staughton Lynd as doctoral advisor and lists 5 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Students6

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Stephen Shisizwe Hlophe “Class, Ethnicity and Politics in Liberia: The Impact of an Emergent Technocratic Class on the Liberian Oligarchy from 1944-1975”
1978 · McGill University · doctoral
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John Frank Stephens “Church reform, reconquest, and the Christian society in Castile-Leon, at the time of the Gregorian reform (1050-1135)”
1977 · doctoral
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James P. Hawley “U.S. restriction of the export of capital, 1961-1971 : state policy and long term economic perspectives”
1976 · McGill University · doctoral
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Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann “Expatriate business and the African response in Ghana : 1886-1939”
1976 · McGill University · doctoral
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Rhonda F. Levine “The political economy of the international coffee trade, 1930-1975 /”
1975 · McGill University · master's
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Charles David Smith “The role of land alienation, colonization and the British American Land Company on Quebec's development, 1800-1850 /”
1975 · McGill University · master's

Advisors on Wikidata1

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Robert Staughton Lynd

Students on Wikidata5

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Michael Hechter
born 1943
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John R. Logan
born 1946
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Faruk Tabak
born 1954
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Beverly J. Silver
born 1957
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Georgi Derluguian
born 1961

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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.

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stated by WikidataRobert Staughton Lynd

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 10 people: 4 cited by thesis records, 6 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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Columbia University
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Binghamton University
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Columbia University
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McGill University
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Yale University
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At a glance

known as: economist, geopolitical analyst, economic historian, historian, political scientist, writer, sociologist, Africanist
fields: sociology, historical sociology, world economy, history of economic thought, African studies
degrees: Doctor of Philosophy
awards: Officer of Arts and Letters, W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship award, 2003, honorary doctor of the University of Brasília, Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Kondratiev Medal, 2004, honorary doctorate from the University of Paris-VII, 1976
member of: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa Society
notable works: The Modern World-System
Wikipedia: in 47 languages

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stated by WikidataWikipediaImmanuel Wallerstein
stated by WikidataWikidataQ494287
stated by WikidataVIAF61553720
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stated by WikidataIdRef027192121
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  title = {{Immanuel Wallerstein: advisors and students}},
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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 31). Immanuel Wallerstein: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-31]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q494287