# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/anand-yang
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:22:28.627Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/anand-yang"
name: "Anand Yang"
slug: "anand-yang"
description: "Anand A. Yang is a history professor at the University of Washington, United States. He has also served as the Chair of the University of Washington's Department of History and the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. From 2006 to 2007, he served as the President for the Association for Asian Studies, and from 2007 to 2009 he was the President of the World History Association. His scholarship has focused on agricultural and Indian peasant life in British Raj colonial India, social history, law and criminality, and life in Indian markets."
tagline: "Indian-American historian"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949-01-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.15
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.483118666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://history.washington.edu/people/anand-yang"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anand_Yang"
    title: "Anand Yang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%BA"
    title: "أناند يانغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A6_%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%82"
    title: "আনন্দ যাং"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%86%D9%86%D8%AF_%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "آنند یانگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anand_Yang"
    title: "Anand Yang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BD%2C_%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4"
    title: "Ян, Ананд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64010556"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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