# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-herskovits
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:34:47.501Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-herskovits"
name: "Jean Herskovits"
slug: "jean-herskovits"
description: "Jean Frances Herskovits was an American historian and academic who was a research professor of history at the State University of New York at Purchase specializing in African history and politics. Herskovits taught at Brown University, Swarthmore College, City College of the City University of New York and Columbia University. She held a D.Phil. in African history from Oxford University."
tagline: "American historian (1935–2019)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1935-05-20"
deathDate: "2019-02-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.7
  momentum:             0.4672897196261683
  historical:           2.870698666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  53
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "جين هيرسكوفيتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Herskovits"
    title: "Jean Herskovits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Herskovits"
    title: "Jean Herskovits"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19958078"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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