Marc Pilisuk

{{Short description|American scholar (1934–2024)}}

Marc Pilisuk (January 19, 1934 – August 20, 2024) was an American scholar of peace and conflict studies and Professor Emeritus of the University of California system, having taught at UC-Davis and UC-Berkeley.{{cite web|url=https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/events/2010/100324TargConference.html|title=Purdue conference to focus on the impacts of war, military spending|author=|date=|website=www.purdue.edu|accessdate=25 October 2018}} Following his retirement as a professor emeritus from the University of California, he taught and supervised graduate students at Saybrook University for over 30 years.{{cite web|url=https://www.saybrook.edu/faculty/|title=Faculty Directory Index -|author=|date=|website=saybrook.edu|accessdate=25 October 2018}} Pilisuk is the author or coauthor of 11 books, including Hidden Structure of Violence: Who Benefits from Global Violence and War,{{cite web|url=https://projectcensored.org/the-hidden-structure-of-violence-who-benefits-from-global-violence-and-war/|title=The Hidden Structure of Violence: Who Benefits From Global Violence and War - The Project Censored Show|author=|date=9 September 2015|website=projectcensored.org|accessdate=25 October 2018}} The Triple Revolution, Poor Americans: How the White Poor Live,{{cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/311698174|title=Poor Americans: how the white poor live|first=Marc|last=Pilisuk|date=25 October 1973|publisher=Transaction Books|oclc=311698174|accessdate=25 October 2018|via=Open WorldCat}} The Healing Web: Social Networks and Human Survival,{{cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/898800663|title=The healing web: social networks and human survival|first1=Marc|last1=Pilisuk|first2=Susan Hillier|last2=Parks|date=25 October 1988|publisher=University Press of New England|oclc=898800663|accessdate=25 October 2018|via=Open WorldCat}} International Conflict and Social Policy,{{cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/247660|title=International conflict and social policy|first1=Marc|last1=Pilisuk|first2=Mehrene|last2=Larudee|date=25 October 1972|publisher=Prentice-Hall|oclc=247660|accessdate=25 October 2018|via=Open WorldCat}} and the three-volume anthology, Peace Movements Worldwide.{{cite web|url=https://www.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOCorporate/product.aspx?pc=D5063C|title=Peace Movements Worldwide|author=|date=|website=abc-clio.com|accessdate=25 October 2018}} He has also authored or coauthored over one hundred academic journal articles. The Dr. Marc Pilisuk Transformative Social Change Award was created at Saybrook University in 2022 to honor his life and work advancing peace and social justice.

In 1961, Pilisuk earned a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in clinical and social psychology.{{cite web|url=http://marcpilisuk.com/bio.html|title=Marc Pilisuk 2011|author=|date=|website=marcpilisuk.com|accessdate=25 October 2018}}

Pilisuk was a founder of the Psychologists for Social Responsibility and past president of The Society for Study of Peace, Conflict and Violence (Division 48 of the American Psychological Association).{{cite web|url=https://www.saybrook.edu/faculty/byname/Marc_Pilisuk/searchQuery/pilisuk/|title=Marc Pilisuk - Saybrook University|author=|date=|website=saybrook.edu|accessdate=25 October 2018}}

In 2012, Pilisuk was awarded The Howard Zinn Lifetime Achievement Award from the Peace and Justice Studies Association.{{cite web|url=https://www.peacejusticestudies.org/conference/awards|title=Awards - Peace and Justice Studies Association|author=|date=|website=www.peacejusticestudies.org|accessdate=25 October 2018}}

In 2019, Pilisuk was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the California Psychological Association.{{Cite web|url=http://batstar.net/users/marcpil1.htm|title = Re: Marc Pilisuk, wins Lifetime Achievement award}}

On March 30, 2024, Pilisuk received a Heritage Award for his "distinguished lifetime contributions to humanistic psychology" from the American Psychological Association's (APA) Division of Humanistic Psychology.

Pilisuk died on August 20, 2024, at the age of 90.{{cite news |last1=Pilisuk |first1=Tammy |title=Remembering Marc Pilisuk, a long-time Berkeley educator and activist who opposed the Vietnam War |url=https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/08/28/remembering-marc-pilisuk-a-long-time-berkeley-educator-and-activist-who-opposed-the-vietnam-war |access-date=24 September 2024 |publisher=Berkeleyside |date=28 August 2024}}