# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dominick-lacapra
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:50:55.234Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dominick-lacapra"
name: "Dominick LaCapra"
slug: "dominick-lacapra"
description: "Dominick LaCapra is an American-born historian of European intellectual history, best known for his work in intellectual history and trauma studies. He served as the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies at Cornell University, where he is now a professor emeritus."
tagline: "American historian"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-07-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.5
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.684342666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "دومينيك لا كابرا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Доминик Лакапра"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominick_LaCapra"
    title: "Dominick LaCapra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominick_LaCapra"
    title: "Dominick LaCapra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominick_LaCapra"
    title: "Dominick LaCapra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%A7_%D7%9C%D7%94_%D7%A7%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%94"
    title: "דומיניק לה קפרה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%9A%E7%B1%B3%E5%B0%BC%E5%85%8B%C2%B7%E6%8B%89%E5%8D%A1%E6%99%AE%E6%8B%89"
    title: "多米尼克·拉卡普拉"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5290927"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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