# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sven-beckert
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:02:49.856Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sven-beckert"
name: "Sven Beckert"
slug: "sven-beckert"
description: "Sven Beckert is a German-American historian who is the Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard University, where he teaches the history of the United States in the nineteenth century, and global history. With Christine A. Desan, he is the co-director of the Program on the Study of Capitalism at Harvard University."
tagline: "German-American historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sven_Beckert_speaking_in_2016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1965"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.376466666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "Sven_Beckert"
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    title: "Sven Beckert"
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    title: "Sven Beckert"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump