# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-j-sheehan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:12:11.229Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-j-sheehan"
name: "James J. Sheehan"
slug: "james-j-sheehan"
description: "James J. Sheehan is an American historian. His scholarship has focused on the history of modern Germany, and he is a former president of the American Historical Association (2005)."
tagline: "American historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_J._Sheehan%2C_Pour_le_Merite_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1937-05-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.14
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.678114666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://profiles.stanford.edu/james-sheehan"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Sheehan"
    title: "James J. Sheehan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%8A_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "جيمس جاي شيهان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيمس جاى شيهان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B8%D1%8D%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81"
    title: "Шиэн, Джеймс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Sheehan"
    title: "James J. Sheehan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_John_Sheehan"
    title: "James John Sheehan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1680622"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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