Paul Reiss

Paul Jacob Reiss (August 10, 1930 – February 28, 2024) was an American sociologist and academic who served as the 14th president of Saint Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont. During his tenure, 80 percent of the College's facilities were newly built or renovated, and there was extensive computerization on campus. In 1989, he was an American representative at the Vatican consultation that led to Ex corde Ecclesiae.

Early life and education Reiss was born in Lake Placid, New York, to Julian and Daisy Reiss. After graduating from La Salle Military Academy, he was educated at the College of the Holy Cross, where he received a Bachelor of Science (B.S.), magna cum laude, in 1952. His dissertation was titled "The Extended Kinship System in the American Urban Middle Class."

Career After marrying Rosemary Agnes Donohue, a student at Emmanuel College, in 1955, Reiss joined the sociology faculty of Marquette University in 1957 and moved to Wisconsin.