# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nancy-scheper-hughes
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:03:31.009Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nancy-scheper-hughes"
name: "Nancy Scheper-Hughes"
slug: "nancy-scheper-hughes"
description: "Nancy Scheper-Hughes is an American anthropologist. She is the Chancellor's Professor Emerita of Anthropology and the director and co-founder of the PhD program in Critical Medical Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is known for her writing on the anthropology of the body, hunger, illness, medicine, motherhood, psychiatry, psychosis, social suffering, violence and genocide, death squads, and human trafficking."
tagline: "American anthropologist"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1944-09-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump