# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/amrita-basu
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:38:16.535Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/amrita-basu"
name: "Amrita Basu"
slug: "amrita-basu"
description: "Amrita Basu is an American academic and political scientist. She currently is a professor at Amherst College where she holds affiliations in the departments of Political Science, Sexuality, Women's, & Gender Studies, Asian Languages & Civilizations, and Black Studies."
tagline: "American political scientist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1953"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.67
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.938229333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "అమృత బసు"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88"
    title: "أمريتا باسو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%83%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%81"
    title: "অমৃতা বসু"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%83%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%81"
    title: "অমৃতা বসু"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amrita_Basu"
    title: "Amrita Basu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88"
    title: "آمریتا باسو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amrita_Basu"
    title: "Amrita Basu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4748666"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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