Academic Ancestry

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David Van Tassel

American history professor1928 to 2000

Supervised 2 doctoral students at Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies; Wikidata names Merle Eugene Curti as doctoral advisor. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 4 other registers.

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Students2

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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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.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 2 people: 2 cited by thesis records.

Education and career2

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