# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/simon-payaslian
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:58:17.086Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/simon-payaslian"
name: "Simon Payaslian"
slug: "simon-payaslian"
description: "Simon Payaslian is an Armenian-American historian, author, editor, who has held the Charles K. and Elizabeth M. Kenosian Chair in Modern Armenian History and Literature at Boston University since 2007. From 2002 to 2007, he held the Kaloosdian/Mugar Chair in Armenian genocide Studies and Modern Armenian History at Clark University."
tagline: "American writer and historian"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1950"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.268754666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "سیمون پایاسلیان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سيمون باياسليان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Payaslian"
    title: "Simon Payaslian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Payaslian"
    title: "Simon Payaslian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8D%D5%AB%D5%B4%D5%B8%D5%B6_%D5%93%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%A1%D5%BD%D5%AC%D5%B5%D5%A1%D5%B6"
    title: "Սիմոն Փայասլյան"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hyw.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8D%D5%AB%D5%B4%D5%B8%D5%B6_%D5%93%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%A1%D5%BD%D5%AC%D5%A5%D5%A1%D5%B6"
    title: "Սիմոն Փայասլեան"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7519499"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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