# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-w-blight
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:18:42.098Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-w-blight"
name: "David W. Blight"
slug: "david-w-blight"
description: "David William Blight is the Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. Previously, Blight was a professor of History at Amherst College, where he taught for 13 years. He has won several awards, including the Bancroft Prize and Frederick Douglass Prize for Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, and the Pulitzer Prize and Lincoln Prize for Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. In 2021, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society."
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1949-03-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump