# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-barkun
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:28:09.817Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-barkun"
name: "Michael Barkun"
slug: "michael-barkun"
description: "Michael Barkun is an American academic who serves as Professor Emeritus of political science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, specializing in political and religious extremism and the relationship between religion and violence. He has authored a number of books on the subject, including Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement (1996), A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America (2003), and Chasing Phantoms: Reality, Imagination, and Homeland Security Since 9/11 (2011)."
tagline: "American political scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Barkun_(academic).jpg?width=1200"
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: "1938-04-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.970837253057386
  historical:           6.598277333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Баркун, Майкл"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump