# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-d-metcalf
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:27:26.128Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-d-metcalf"
name: "Barbara D. Metcalf"
slug: "barbara-d-metcalf"
description: "Barbara Daly Metcalf is a professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Davis. She is a specialist in the history of South Asia, especially the colonial period, and the history of the Muslim population of India and Pakistan. She previously served as the dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of California, Davis, and as the Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History at the University of Michigan (2003–2009). She was the president of the Association for Asian Studies in 1994 and the president of the American Historical Association in 2010–11."
tagline: "American historian"
gender: "female"
country:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1941"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "বারবারা ডি. মেটকাল্ফ"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump