Peter William Stanley[1] (born 1940)[1] is an American historian and academic administrator who served as the eighth president of Pomona College.
[2] A scholar of Asian studies, his tenure at Pomona coincided with a substantial increase in the college's endowment and prestige.
[3] He subsequently taught Asian history at the University of Illinois and Harvard, and served as the chief academic officer at Carleton College for a year.
[4] During his tenure, he oversaw a number of construction projects, including most prominently the Smith Campus Center (1999),[5] that modernized the college's facilities while restoring elements of Myron Hunt's master plan that had degraded over time.
[2] After retiring from Pomona, Stanley moved with his wife to Old Saybrook, Connecticut; she died in January 2020 after 42 years of marriage.