# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-telles
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:36:30.231Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-telles"
name: "Edward Telles"
slug: "edward-telles"
description: "Edward Telles is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine and Director of the Center for Research on International Migration. He has authored several books and many articles, winning numerous prizes including the Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award from the American Sociological Association. He has been a leader in the study of race, color and ethnicity globally and throughout the Americas as well as on immigration and immigrant integration in the United States."
tagline: "American sociologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956-02-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.54
  momentum:             11.33014354066986
  historical:           1.536897333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  49
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Telles"
    title: "Edward Telles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58812893"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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