James Shulman is vice president and Chief Operating Officer at the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).
[1] During his nine years at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation before joining Artstor, he participated in the construction of large databases, wrote about educational policy issues and the missions of not-for-profit institutions, and worked in a range of research, administrative, and investment capacities.
Shulman originally joined the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 1994 as a member of the research staff and subsequently served as Financial and Administrative Officer.
[4] He also wrote (with William Bowen) The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values (Princeton University Press, 2001).
[6] He also has written the introduction to Robert K. Merton's The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity: A Study in Historical Semantics and the Sociology of Science (Princeton University Press, 2003).