# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-shils
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:02:33.912Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-shils"
name: "Edward Shils"
slug: "edward-shils"
description: "Edward Albert Shils was a Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and in Sociology at the University of Chicago and an influential sociologist. He was known for his research on the role of intellectuals and their relations to power and public policy. His work was honored in 1983 when he was awarded the Balzan Prize. In 1979, he was selected by the National Council on the Humanities to give the Jefferson Lecture, the highest award given by the U.S. federal government for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities."
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birthDate: "1910-07-01"
deathDate: "1995-01-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump