# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karen-parshall
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:16:34.473Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karen-parshall"
name: "Karen Parshall"
slug: "karen-parshall"
description: "Karen Hunger Parshall is an American historian of mathematics. She is the Commonwealth Professor of History and Mathematics at the University of Virginia with a joint appointment in the Corcoran Department of History and Department of Mathematics. From 2009 to 2012, Parshall was the Associate Dean for the Social Sciences in the College of Arts in Sciences at UVA, and from 2016 to 2019 she was the chair of the Corcoran Department of History."
tagline: "American historian of mathematics"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1955-07-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.4
  historical:           7.003744
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "کیرن پارشال"
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    title: "كارين بارشال"
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    title: "Karen Parshall"
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    title: "Karen Parshall"
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    title: "Karen Parshall"
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    title: "کارن پارشال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Karen Parshall"
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    title: "Karen Parshall"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump