# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lewis-gordon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:58:00.397Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lewis-gordon"
name: "Lewis Gordon"
slug: "lewis-gordon"
description: "Lewis Ricardo Gordon is an American philosopher at the University of Connecticut who works in the areas of Africana philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, social and political theory, postcolonial thought, theories of race and racism, philosophies of liberation, aesthetics, philosophy of education, and philosophy of religion. He has written particularly extensively on Africana and black existentialism, postcolonial phenomenology, race and racism, and on the works and thought of W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon."
tagline: "Professor of philosophy"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1962"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.96
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.488014666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://lewisrgordon.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Gordon"
    title: "Lewis Gordon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%BA%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "لويس غوردون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%81_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)"
    title: "لويس جوردون (فيلسوف من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Gordon"
    title: "Lewis Gordon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Gordon"
    title: "Lewis Gordon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Gordon"
    title: "Lewis Gordon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6536603"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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