# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-cronon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:37:33.409Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-cronon"
name: "William Cronon"
slug: "william-cronon"
description: "William Cronon is an American environmental historian and the Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was president of the American Historical Association (AHA) in 2012."
tagline: "American historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Cronon%2C_2007.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1954-09-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.7
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.702954666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/wcronon"
    handle:    "wcronon"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1404041/"
    handle:    "nm1404041"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.williamcronon.net/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cronon"
    title: "William Cronon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "وليام كرونون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cronon"
    title: "William Cronon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A8%81%E5%BB%89%C2%B7%E5%85%8B%E7%BD%97%E5%86%9C"
    title: "威廉·克罗农"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cronon"
    title: "William Cronon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Кронон, Уильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8007305"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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