# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-sahlins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:44:24.013Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-sahlins"
name: "Peter Sahlins"
slug: "peter-sahlins"
description: "Peter Sahlins is an American historian of France and Europe. He is a professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in early modern France. From 2006 to 2008 he was on leave at the Social Science Research Council as its Director of Academic Programs, where he directed the major fellowship programs and led a new environmental programming initiative."
tagline: "American historian"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1957-04-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.61
  momentum:             12.75
  historical:           2.207668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  51
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "بيتر سالينز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sahlins"
    title: "Peter Sahlins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7176747"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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