Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

William H. Sewell

American sociologist1909 to 2001

Wikidata names Francis Stuart Chapin as doctoral advisor and lists 3 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

The line above and below1 step

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 4 people: 4 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career6

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