| Roger Pearson (born 1927) is a British anthropologist, advocate of eugenics, and editor of several journals published by the Institute for the Study of Man.
Life and work Originally from Great Britain, Pearson has also served as (colonial) officer in the British army to India when Wickliffe Draper of the Pioneer Fund was also stationed there. Pearson later directed various British-controlled companies in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). In 1963 he served as President of the Pakistan Tea Association, Chittagong. He also served on the Managing Committee of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry.
He studied at the University of London, where he gained a Master's degree in Economics and Sociology, and a Ph.D. in Anthropology. In 1958, Pearson founded the Northern League "to foster the interests, friendship and solidarity of all Teutonic nations." He recruited Hans F. K. Günther, who received awards under the Nazi regime for his work on race, Ernest Sevier Cox of the Ku Klux Klan who wrote White America which was sponsored and distributed by Wickliffe Draper of The Pioneer Fund, and Dr. Wilhelm Kesserow, a former SS officer.
He joined the Eugenics Society in 1963 and became a fellow in 1977. Pearson was brought to the United States in 1965 by Willis Carto of the Liberty Lobby, and contributed to some of Carto's publications, such as Western Destiny and at Noontide Press. At the end of the 1960s, he parted with Carto, and successively taught at Queens University of Charlotte, The University of Southern Mississippi and Montana Tech. During his tenure as dean at Montana Tech, Pearson received $60,000 from the Pioneer Fund and he was asked to leave his position there because of his continued relationship with the head of The Pioneer Fund, Wickliffe Draper. Montana Tech officials stated they were unaware that Pearson was the person who had edited Western Destiny, a periodical laden with many pro-South Africa, anti-Communist and anti-racial mixing articles, who had penned both articles and pamphlets for Willis Carto's Noontide Press. These blatantly white supremacist titles included: "Eugenics and Race" and "Early Civilizations of the Nordic Race." Pearson, Draper, Cox and Carto were at the forefront of efforts to support and promote apartheid, involuntary sterilization and segregation and to oppose miscegenation anywhere in the world. They worked together on a Draper-sponsored scheme to provide financial bonuses for voluntary repatriation of blacks to Africa.
In 1975, he left academia and moved to Washington, D.C., where he founded the Council on American Affairs. He also joined the editorial board of Policy Review, the monthly Heritage Foundation publication in 1977, but was forced to resign in 1978, after The Washington Post exposed Pearson's background following the 11th Conference of the World Anti-Communist League—which he chaired.
In 1981, Pearson received the library of Donald A. Swan through a grant from the Pioneer Fund.[7] Pearson also held the directorship of the Institute for the Study of Man, a group which was alleged by Searchlight magazine to have received $869,500 between 1981 and 1996 from the Pioneer Fund and which under Pearson acquired the peer-reviewed journal Mankind Quarterly in 1978. Pearson simultaneously took over as editor and has remained editor through to the present day, though his name has never appeared on the masthead. Pearson has used diverse pseudonyms to contribute to the journal, including J.W. Jamieson. Auschwitz doctor Josef Mengele's advisor, Otmar von Verschuer, was on the editorial advisory board of this journal before his death in 1970. The institute also prints the Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies and the Journal of Indo-European Studies and has the Scott-Townsend book imprint. In the editing of the Journal of Indo-European Studies he is assisted by JP | 
