MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Organization organization Q16977777
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MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Summary

MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences is an organization[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of organization entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences's field of work was humanities[3].
  • MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences's field of work was social science[4].
  • MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences is located in Massachusetts[5].
  • MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences is in the country of United States[6].
  • MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences's instance of is recorded as organization[7].
  • MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences's instance of is recorded as faculty[8].
  • MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences's founder is recorded as Karl Taylor Compton[9].
  • MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as no2002010769[10].
  • MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences's part of is recorded as Massachusetts Institute of Technology[11].
  • MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences's archives at is recorded as Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries[12].
  • MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences's chairperson is recorded as John Ely Burchard[13].
  • MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences's chairperson is recorded as Ann Friedlaender[14].
  • MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences's chairperson is recorded as Philip S. Khoury[15].
  • MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences's chairperson is recorded as Melissa Nobles[16].
  • MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences's coordinate location is recorded as {'globe': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2', 'altitude': None, 'latitude': 42.3598, 'longitude': -71.0915, 'precision': 1e-06}[17].
  • MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02x3msw[18].
  • MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences's parent organization or unit is recorded as Massachusetts Institute of Technology[19].
  • MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences's official website is recorded as https://shass.mit.edu/[20].
  • MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences's category for alumni of educational institution is recorded as Category:MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni[21].
  • MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject PCC Wikidata Pilot/MIT[22].
  • MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences's Yale LUX ID is recorded as group/8b600a4c-0319-42bf-8711-96da3f3f6bdb[23].

Body

Founding

MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences's founder is recorded as Karl Taylor Compton[9].

Identity

MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences's part of is recorded as Massachusetts Institute of Technology[11].

Leadership

Chairpersons include John Ely Burchard[13], an academic[24], 1898–1975[25], of United States[26]; Ann Friedlaender[14], an economist[27], 1938–1992[28], of United States[29]; Philip S. Khoury[15], a historian[30], b. 1949[31], of United States[32], awarded the George Louis Beer Prize[33]; and Melissa Nobles[16], a political scientist[34], b. 1963[35], of United States[36].

Operations

MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences's parent organization or unit is recorded as Massachusetts Institute of Technology[19].

Industry

Fields of work include humanities[3], an academic discipline[37] and social science[4], a class used in Universal Decimal Classification[38].

Why It Matters

MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences ranks in the top 4% of organization entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7 views/month).[2]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . id.loc.gov. id.loc.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . archivesspace.mit.edu. archivesspace.mit.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . libraries.mit.edu. libraries.mit.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [37] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [38] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [24] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
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  5. [26] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [27] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
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  9. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  10. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  11. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  12. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  13. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  14. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  15. [36] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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