# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tressie-mcmillan-cottom
# Generated: 2026-08-15T17:10:39.759Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tressie-mcmillan-cottom"
name: "Tressie McMillan Cottom"
slug: "tressie-mcmillan-cottom"
description: "Tressie McMillan Cottom is an American writer, sociologist, and professor. She is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (SILS) and an affiliate of the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is also an opinion columnist at The New York Times."
tagline: "American writer, sociologist, and professor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr._Tressie_McMillan_Cottom.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
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  momentum:             9.525737420474263
  historical:           5.588202666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "tressiemcphd"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/tressiemcphd/"
    handle:    "tressiemcphd"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/tressiemcmillancottom"
    handle:    "tressiemcmillancottom"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://tressiemc.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Tressie McMillan Cottom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تريسي مكميلان كوتوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tressie_McMillan_Cottom"
    title: "Tressie McMillan Cottom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tressie_McMillan_Cottom"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tressie_McMillan_Cottom"
    title: "Tressie McMillan Cottom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tressie_McMillan_Cottom"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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