Edward Victor Boursaud SJ (September 1, 1840 – March 19, 1902) was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who was the president of Boston College from 1884 to 1887.

Raised in New York City and France, he studied at Mount St. Mary's College in Maryland before entering the Society of Jesus in 1863.

In 1881 and 1887, he served three-year terms in Italy as the assistant secretary to the Jesuit Superior General for the English-speaking world.

In his later years, he spent time teaching and as a spiritual father at Jesuit institutions throughout the eastern United States.

[2] Boursaud's father, Augustin,[3] was born in Bourdeaux, France, and emigrated to New York at the age of thirty.

[2] Boursaud's mother, Elizabeth née Perret,[3] was born in New York City and was of French and Swiss descent.

While at the novitiate, he translated Joseph-Epiphane Darras's A General History of the Catholic Church from French to English, at Archbishop Martin John Spalding's request.

While there, he completed his third year of probation and professed his final vows on August 15, 1882, which were accepted by Superior General Peter Jan Beckx.

[7][1] Boursaud returned to the United States, and on July 31, 1884, he succeeded Jeremiah O'Conor as the fifth president of Boston College.

[4] His first project was to remodel and expand the basement of Immaculate Conception Church, adding marble altars, statues, and stained glass windows.

[15][a] In 1894, Boursaud was stationed at Saint Joseph's College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as an assistant to the central director of the Apostleship of Prayer and as a staff member of the Messenger of the Sacred Heart, that organization's publication.

[9][14] Due to his failing health, Boursaud was sent by his superiors to Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama.