Draft:Peter D. Salins

Peter D. Salins (born June 15, 1938) is an American author and academic.

Born in Berlin, Germany, to Irwin and Ilse Daisy Salins, Salins immigrated to the United States as an infant.

Salins received a B.Arch. from Syracuse University in 1961, followed by an M.R.P. from the same institution in 1968, and a Ph.D. in 1969.

Salins is a former Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs of the State University of New York.

Salins was the editor of City Journal in the early 1990s.

On April 4, 1971, Salins married Rochelle Chensky, with whom he had one daughter and one son.

Rita J. Simon for the Foundation For Economic Education, "Book Review: Assimilitation, American Style by Peter D. Salins", Immigration Daily, via The Freeman, Vol. 48 No. 3 (March 1998).