Academic Genealogy

Academic genealogy seeks to organize mentorship relationships in academia. Listed in this page is my academic genealogy.

I trace my academic genealogy back to John Burgess, one of the founders of contemporary Political Science in the United States. John Burgess established the Department of Political Science at Columbia University in 1880 - the first PhD granting political science department in the United States. John Burgess himself did not have a PhD. He earned a bachelors degree from Amherst College, and conducted graduate training in Imperial Germany for a few years before returning to the states. I am unable to find evidence he earned a graduate degree in Germany. The closest thing to a graduate advisor for Burgess was historian Johann Gustav Droysen ( Friedrich Wilhelm University, aka the University of Berlin, PhD 1831).

If you're further interested in academic genealogy, check out the Academic Family Tree project!