Archive for August, 2007

Accounting for our research trip

30Aug07

It’s taken us a while to organize the data we collected this past month, but here are some approximate figures on what we’ve collected.

Institution
Dissertations
Faculty Records

University of Chicago
375
Complete

Cornell University
267*
Complete

CUNY Graduate Center
176
Complete

Harvard
(pending)
Complete

Johns Hopkins University
(pending)
Complete

University of Michigan
317
Complete

Northwestern University
299
Complete

Notre Dame University
265
Complete

University of Pennsylvania
(pending)
Complete

University of Pittsburgh
205*
Complete

Rutgers University
107
Complete

Syracuse University
138
Complete

University of Toronto
589
Complete

University of Wisconsin-Madison
281
Complete

Yale University
(pending)
Complete

TOTAL

3,019

14

* indicates several missing dissertations to be obtained
As [...]

Display plans

04Aug07

When we started this project, we conceived of three displays:

an individuals display, which would identify personal influences on a particular
individual, including their relationships with their teachers, graduate school peers, colleagues at appointed institutions, and dissertation advisees and committee members.
an institutional display, which would show which philosophers worked and studied at a particular institution throughout the [...]