# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karen-dawisha
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:13:47.400Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karen-dawisha"
name: "Karen Dawisha"
slug: "karen-dawisha"
description: "Karen Dawisha was an American political scientist and writer. She was a professor in the Department of Political Science at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and the director of The Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies."
tagline: "American political scientist (1949–2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karen_Dawisha_headshot.png?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: "1949-12-02"
deathDate: "2018-04-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.4
  momentum:             4.778440010365379
  historical:           9.008712
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://miamioh.edu/cas/academics/centers/havighurst/about-center/staff-faculty/dawisha-faculty-page/index.html"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Dawisha"
    title: "Karen Dawisha"
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    title: "Karen Dawisha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Dawisha"
    title: "Karen Dawisha"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Dawisha"
    title: "Karen Dawisha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Dawisha"
    title: "Karen Dawisha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Քարեն Դավիշա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Dawisha"
    title: "Karen Dawisha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD"
    title: "Давиша, Карен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Dawisha"
    title: "Karen Dawisha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%96%D1%88%D0%B0"
    title: "Карен Давіша"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump