{{short description|American scholar}} {{Infobox person | name =James Piereson | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = | education =Michigan State University | employer = | occupation =University professor, scholar | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | spouse =Patricia Piereson | children = 1 | parents = | relatives = }} '''James E. Piereson''' is an American scholar.<ref name="manhattan">[http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/piereson.htm Manhattan Institute biography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081005234730/http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/piereson.htm |date=2008-10-05 }}</ref><ref name="philanthropy">{{Cite web |url=http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/who_we_are/board/james_piereson |title=Philanthropy Roundtable |access-date=2013-01-07 |archive-date=2013-01-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130118215157/http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/who_we_are/board/james_piereson |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="cir">{{Cite web |url=http://www.cir-usa.org/board.html |title=Center for Individual Rights Board |access-date=2013-01-07 |archive-date=2013-08-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130810074731/http://www.cir-usa.org/board.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="donors">{{Cite web |url=http://www.donorstrust.org/AboutUs/JamesPiereson.aspx |title=Donors Trust biography |access-date=2013-01-07 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130414142533/http://www.donorstrust.org/AboutUs/JamesPiereson.aspx |archive-date=2013-04-14 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="rochester">[https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:-oL7yiiisOIJ:www.simon.rochester.edu/simon-school-advancement/simon-connections/advisory-organizations/executive-advisory-committee/download.aspx?id%3D2510+james+piereson+rochester&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESiPFi4ETRtxO5Co3yjaNEPYgv8a10hTqeVVyvwJY3IXv8MSwVYwqTL0PRIOukiwvrG8u2mOb6OrRILnqwD_Fky7QtnB6GMwlUv248MlJoV2leN_A5JRQ5_u2hx47dX94T-h6Ge_&sig=AHIEtbRvG36yQmNWwqXwQ9EMYUJiDjm1oQ University of Rochester biography]</ref>
==Biography== ===Early life=== James Piereson received a B.A. in 1968 and a Ph.D. in 1973 in political science, both from Michigan State University.<ref name="rochester"/>
===Academic career=== He taught political theory and U.S. government courses at Iowa State University in 1974, at Indiana University in 1975, and at the University of Pennsylvania from 1976 to 1982.<ref name="manhattan"/><ref name="philanthropy"/><ref name="cir"/><ref name="donors"/><ref name="rochester"/>
===Philanthropy=== From 1985 to 2005, he served as executive director and trustee of the John M. Olin Foundation.<ref name="manhattan"/><ref name="philanthropy"/><ref name="cir"/><ref name="donors"/><ref name="rochester"/> He is President of the William E. Simon Foundation, a grant-giving organization headquartered in New York City.<ref name="manhattan"/><ref name="philanthropy"/><ref name="cir"/><ref name="donors"/><ref name="rochester"/><ref name="spectator">{{Cite web |url=http://spectator.org/people/james-piereson/all |title=The American Spectator |access-date=2013-01-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130128124545/http://spectator.org/people/james-piereson/all |archive-date=2013-01-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="claremont">{{Cite web |url=http://www.claremont.org/scholars/id.552/scholar.asp |title=The Claremont Institute |access-date=2013-01-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140215110441/http://www.claremont.org/scholars/id.552/scholar.asp |archive-date=2014-02-15 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
He is a Senior Fellow and serves as Chairman of the Center for the American University at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research,<ref name="manhattan"/><ref name="spectator"/><ref name="donors"/><ref name="rochester"/><ref name="claremont"/><ref name="encounter">{{Cite web |url=http://www.encounterbooks.com/books/author/pieresonj/ |title=Encounter Books |access-date=2013-01-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121127203851/http://www.encounterbooks.com/books/author/pieresonj/ |archive-date=2012-11-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://www.c-spanvideo.org/jamespiereson C-Span]{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and an advisory board member of the affiliated Adam Smith Society.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.adamsmithsociety.com/html/advisory-board-0075.html|title=Adam Smith Society Advisory Board|access-date=February 1, 2019}}{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He also serves as chairman of the selection committee for the VERITAS Fund for Higher Education, giving grants to selected programs at US colleges and universities.<ref name="manhattan"/><ref name="donors"/> Additionally, he is chairman of the selection committee for the Hayek Book Prize awarded by the Manhattan Institute each year.<ref name="manhattan"/>
He serves on the Boards of the Pinkerton Foundation, the Thomas W. Smith Foundation, the Center for Individual Rights, the Philanthropy Roundtable (where he served as chairman from 1995 to 1999), the Foundation for Cultural Review, the American Spectator Foundation, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and Donors Trust.<ref name="manhattan"/><ref name="philanthropy"/><ref name="cir"/><ref name="donors"/><ref name="rochester"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thepinkertonfoundation.org/who-we-are/trustees-and-officers |title=The Pinkerton Foundation Board of Trustees |access-date=2013-01-07 |archive-date=2013-03-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130301110721/http://www.thepinkertonfoundation.org/who-we-are/trustees-and-officers |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://spectator.org/american-spectator-foundation |title=The American Spectator Foundation Board of Directors |access-date=2013-01-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110423233730/http://spectator.org/american-spectator-foundation |archive-date=2011-04-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://www.hoover.org/about/board-of-overseers Hoover Institution Board of Overseers]</ref>
Additionally, he is a member of the selection committee for the Clare Boothe Luce Program for Women in the Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering.<ref name="manhattan"/><ref name="donors"/> He is a member of the grant advisory committee of the Searle Freedom Trust.<ref name="manhattan"/> He is also a member of the executive advisory committee of the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester and of the board of visitors of the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy.<ref name="manhattan"/><ref name="rochester"/> He also sits on the advisory council of the Henry Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom at Claremont McKenna College.<ref name="manhattan"/><ref name="donors"/> He sits on the publication committees of ''City Journal'' and ''National Affairs''.<ref name="manhattan"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.city-journal.org/html/about_cj.html |title=City Journal Publication Committee |access-date=2013-01-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130114131406/http://www.city-journal.org/html/about_cj.html |archive-date=2013-01-14 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://www.nationalaffairs.com/about_us/ National Affairs Publication Committee] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090911070324/http://www.nationalaffairs.com/about_us/ |date=2009-09-11 }}</ref>
===Personal life=== He lives in New York City and Sleepy Hollow, New York.<ref name="encounter"/><ref name="rochester"/> He is married to Patricia and they have one son.<ref name="rochester"/>
==Bibliography== *''Political Tolerance and American Democracy'' (with J. Sullivan and G. Marcus, University of Chicago Press, 1982) *''Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism'' (Encounter Books, 2007) *''The Pursuit of Liberty: Can the Ideals That Made America Great Provide a Model for the World'' (editor, Encounter Books, 2008)
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