# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-carrasco
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:37:35.810Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-carrasco"
name: "David Carrasco"
slug: "david-carrasco"
description: "Davíd Lee Carrasco is an American academic historian of religion, anthropologist, and Mesoamericanist scholar. As of 2001, he holds the inaugural appointment as Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of Latin America Studies at the Harvard Divinity School, in a joint appointment with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. Carrasco previously taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder and Princeton University and is known for his research and publications on Mesoamerican religion and history, his public speaking as well as wider contributions within Latin American studies and Latino/a studies. He has made statements about Latino contributions to US democracy in public dialogues with Cornel West, Toni Morrison, and Samuel P. Huntington. His work is known primarily for his writings on the ways human societies orient themselves with sacred places."
tagline: "American Mesoamericanist"
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1944"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump