# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/emiko-ohnuki-tierney
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:38:40.783Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/emiko-ohnuki-tierney"
name: "Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney"
slug: "emiko-ohnuki-tierney"
description: "Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney is a noted anthropologist and the William F. Vilas Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author of fourteen single-authored books in English and in Japanese, in addition to numerous articles. Her books have been translated into many other languages, including Italian, Korean, Polish and Russian. Ohnuki-Tierney was appointed the Distinguished Chair of Modern Culture at the Library of Congress in DC in 2009 and then in 2010 Fellow of Institut d’Études Avancées-Paris. She is a member of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, its mid-west council member, and a recipient of John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship among other prestigious awards."
tagline: "Japanese-born anthropologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/E.O.Tierney.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1934"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.345861333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney"
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    title: "ایمیکو اوهنوکی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emiko_Ohnuki-Tierney"
    title: "Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E8%B2%AB%E6%81%B5%E7%BE%8E%E5%AD%90"
    title: "大貫恵美子"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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