# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kevin-b-anderson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:17:23.687Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kevin-b-anderson"
name: "Kevin B. Anderson"
slug: "kevin-b-anderson"
description: "Kevin B. Anderson is an American sociologist, Marxist humanist, author, and professor. Anderson is Professor of Sociology, Political Science and Feminist studies at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He was previously Professor of Sociology at Northern Illinois University, in DeKalb and Professor of Political Science, Sociology and Women's Studies at Purdue University."
tagline: "California-based sociologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Anderson-occupy-la-2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1948"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/kevinandersonb"
    handle:    "kevinandersonb"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://kevin-anderson.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Kevin B. Anderson"
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    title: "كيفن بي. أندرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ケヴィン・B・アンダーソン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Андерсон, Кевин Б."
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump