# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kum-kum-bhavnani
# Generated: 2026-08-15T13:45:25.674Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kum-kum-bhavnani"
name: "Kum-Kum Bhavnani"
slug: "kum-kum-bhavnani"
description: "Kum-Kum Bhavnani is a university professor, filmmaker, and author. As of 2018, she is a professor of Sociology and Distinguished Professor with Feminist Studies and Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she is Chair of the interdisciplinary program in Women, Culture, Development. She served as the Chair (2019–20) of the University of California Academic Senate."
tagline: "American university professor, filmmaker, and author"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/iIg9kN0qgIlCz3JmsfQRdz43BtI.jpg"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1951"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.21
  momentum:             18.3688524590164
  historical:           5.537257333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2432896/"
    handle:    "nm2432896"
sources:
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    title: "கும் கும் பாவ்னானி"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "কুম-কুম ভাবনানি"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kum-Kum_Bhavnani"
    title: "Kum-Kum Bhavnani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kum-Kum_Bhavnani"
    title: "Kum-Kum Bhavnani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ਕੁਮ-ਕੁਮ ਭਵਨਾਨੀ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ᱠᱩᱢ-ᱠᱩᱢ ᱵᱷᱟᱣᱱᱟᱱᱤ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q54860690"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2112778"
    title: "Kum-Kum Bhavnani"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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