Peter James Stanlis (August 12, 1919 – July 18, 2011) was an American academic noted for his work on Edmund Burke and Robert Frost.
They became friends and Kirk wrote the foreword to Stanlis' 1958 work, Edmund Burke and Natural Law.
He later said that the book contributed to the interpretation of Burke's philosophy as "the basis of modern American political conservatism".
He co-founded the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in 1969 and from 1982 until 1988 he served on the National Council for the Humanities,[3] after being appointed by President Reagan.
[2] He also served on the Academic Board of the National Humanities Institute and was a research fellow of the British Academy.