james shulman is artstors president 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 notforprofit institutions and worked in a range of research administrative and investment capacitiesshulman joined the andrew g mellon foundation in 1994 as a member of the research staff and subsequently served as financial and administrative officer he oversaw the building of the college and beyond database with 34 participating colleges and universities survey teams at mathematica policy research and norc and foundation colleagues drawing upon the database he collaborated with william g bowen and derek bok on the shape of the river longterm consequences of considering race in college and university admissions princeton university press 1998 he also wrote with william bowen the game of life college sports and educational values princeton university press 2001from 19972002 shulman assisted in the management of the foundations endowment he also worked with the financial vice president with the foundations internal budgeting for the first half of 2000 shulman managed these functions while the financial vice president was on sabbaticalshulman received his ba and phd from yale university in renaissance studies his dissertation which examined how heroes made decisions in the complex world of renaissance epic poetry received the john addison porter prize in 1993 and forms the basis of the pale cast of thought hesitation and decision in the renaissance epic university of delaware press 1998 he also has written the introduction to robert k mertons the travels and adventures of serendipity a study in historical semantics and the sociology of science princeton university press 2003shulman serves on the board of smith college where he sits on the educational matters student affairs and investment committees he is currently also chairing an ad hoc committee on admissions and financial aid issues