# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruth-wilson-gilmore
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:08:49.291Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruth-wilson-gilmore"
name: "Ruth Wilson Gilmore"
slug: "ruth-wilson-gilmore"
description: "Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a prison abolitionist and prison scholar. She is the Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics and professor of geography in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has made important contributions to carceral geography, the \"study of the interrelationships across space, institutions and political economy that shape and define modern incarceration\". She received the 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Geographers."
tagline: "American academic"
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birthDate: "1950-04-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump