# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-sims-bainbridge
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:11:22.838Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/william-sims-bainbridge"
name: "William Sims Bainbridge"
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description: "William Sims Bainbridge is an American sociologist who currently resides in Virginia. He is co-director of Cyber-Human Systems at the National Science Foundation (NSF). He is the first Senior Fellow to be appointed by the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. Bainbridge is most well known for his work on the sociology of religion. Beginning in the 2010s he has published work studying the sociology of video gaming."
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birthDate: "1940-10-12"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump