# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-kertzer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:42:32.457Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-kertzer"
name: "David Kertzer"
slug: "david-kertzer"
description: "David Israel Kertzer is an American anthropologist, historian, and academic, specializing in the political, demographic, and religious history of Italy. He is the Paul Dupee Jr. University Professor of Social Science, Professor of Anthropology, and Professor of Italian Studies at Brown University. His book The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe (2014) won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. From July 1, 2006, to June 30, 2011, Kertzer served as Provost at Brown."
tagline: "American historian and anthropologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_I._Kertzer_historian.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1948-02-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.4297
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    title: "David Kertzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Kertzer"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump