# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-j-motyl
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:30:17.096Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-j-motyl"
name: "Alexander J. Motyl"
slug: "alexander-j-motyl"
description: "Alexander John Motyl is an American historian, political scientist, poet, writer, translator, and painter. He is a resident of New York City. He is professor of political science at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, and a specialist on Ukraine, Russia, and the Soviet Union."
tagline: "American historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alexander_J._Motyl.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1953-10-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.47
  momentum:             0.4347826086956523
  historical:           9.431752
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://web.archive.org/web/20180203093352/http://alexmotyl.com/"
sources:
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    title: "اليكساندر جيه. موتيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alexander J. Motyl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alexander J. Motyl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "الکساندر جی موتیل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alexander Motyl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alexander Motyl"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Мотыль, Александр"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Олександр Мотиль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump