ARIA Academic Family Tree

Doctoral advising lineages in insurance and risk management — 295 people descending from 52 root advisors across 45 universities. The largest lineages open on load; the rest are collapsed and labelled with their size. Click a name to expand or collapse, hover to trace a lineage back to its root, or search for a person.

The ARIA Family Tree is James M. Carson’s. He built it from dissertation chairs and presented it as the “Six Degrees of Solomon Huebner” in his ARIA presidential address, calling it a work in progress he hoped to post on the ARIA website. This page carries on that work; the lineages he sampled, Robert I. Mehr’s among them, are still here.

The tree is a work in progress. Additions and corrections are welcome. Please email Evan Eastman at eeastman@wertheim.fsu.edu.

Each column is one academic generation. Dashed lines mark co-advising: a co-advised student appears under each advisor, and ⇄ jumps between them. Corrections and additions are welcome at eeastman@wertheim.fsu.edu.
Original work: James M. Carson, “The ARIA Loop,” Risk Management and Insurance Review, 2005, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 1–8 — presidential address delivered at the 2004 ARIA meeting, Chicago.
Generated 2026-07-31; updated 2026-09-22.