Jason Sorens

Jason Sorens is Senior Research Faculty at AIER. He was formerly the director of the Center for Ethics in Society at Saint Anselm College, and founded the Free State Project. Sorens is the author of Secessionism: Identity, Interest, and Strategy (2012), and co-​author (with William Ruger) of the biennially-​revised Freedom in the 50 States.

Sorens’s research is focused on housing policy and land-​use regulation, U.S. state politics, fiscal federalism, and movements for regional autonomy and independence around the world. He has taught at Yale, Dartmouth, and the University at Buffalo. He lives in Amherst, New Hampshire.