# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-petras
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:11:19.755Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-petras"
name: "James Petras"
slug: "james-petras"
description: "James Petras was an American sociologist and academic who was the Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York, and adjunct professor at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He published on political issues with particular focus on Latin America and the Middle East, imperialism, globalization, and leftist social movements."
tagline: "American sociologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Petras.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1937-01-17"
deathDate: "2026-01-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49
  momentum:             5.985997666277713
  historical:           9.24932
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://petras.lahaine.org"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "جيمس بيتراس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Petras"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Petras"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Petras"
    title: "James Petras"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Petras"
    title: "James Petras"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Petras"
    title: "James Petras"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Petras"
    title: "James Petras"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Petras"
    title: "James Petras"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Petras"
    title: "James Petras"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81"
    title: "Петрас, Джеймс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump