# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vicki-l-ruiz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:37:26.546Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vicki-l-ruiz"
name: "Vicki L. Ruiz"
slug: "vicki-l-ruiz"
description: "Vicki Lynn Ruiz is an American historian who has written or edited 14 books and published over 60 essays. Her work focuses on Mexican-American women in the twentieth century. She is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal."
tagline: "American historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vicki_L._Ruiz_in_1983.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1955-05-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.75
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.137473333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Vicki_L._Ruiz"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A_%D8%A5%D9%84._%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "فيكي إل. رويز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%84._%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "فيكى ال. رويز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicki_Lynn_Ruiz"
    title: "Vicki Lynn Ruiz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicki_L._Ruiz"
    title: "Vicki L. Ruiz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%83%D0%B8%D0%B7%2C_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8"
    title: "Руиз, Вики"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Vicki_L._Ruiz"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28972651"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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