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 Victor
Davis Hanson
Senior
Fellow
Victor
Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Hanson
was a full-time farmer before joining California State University,
Fresno, in 1984 to initiate a classics program. In 1991 he was
awarded an American Philological Association Excellence in Teaching
Award, which is given yearly to the country's top undergraduate
teachers of Greek and Latin. He is currently a professor of classics
at the university.
Hanson
was a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow at the Center
for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California
(1992–93), a visiting professor of classics at Stanford
University (1991–92), a recipient of the Eric Breindel
Award for opinion journalism (2002), and an Alexander Onassis
Fellow (2001) and was named alumnus of the year of the University
of California, Santa Cruz (2002). He was also the visiting Shifrin
Chair of Military History at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis,
Maryland (2002–3).
Hanson
is the author of some 170 articles, book reviews, and newspaper
editorials on Greek, agrarian, and military history and essays
on contemporary culture. He has written or edited thirteen books,
including Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece (1983;
paperback ed. University of California Press, 1998); The Western
Way of War (Alfred Knopf, 1989; 2d paperback ed. University of
California Press, 2000); Hoplites: The Ancient Greek Battle Experience
(Routledge, 1991; paperback ed. 1992); The Other Greeks: The
Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization (Free
Press, 1995; 2d paperback ed. University of California Press,
2000); Fields without Dreams: Defending the Agrarian Idea (Free
Press, 1996; paperback ed. Touchstone, 1997); The Land Was Everything:
Letters from an American Farmer (Free Press, 2000); The Wars
of the Ancient Greeks (Cassell, 1999; paperback ed., 2001); The
Soul of Battle (Free Press, 1999, paperback ed. Anchor/ Vintage,
2000); Carnage and Culture (Doubleday, 2001; Anchor/Vintage,
2002); An Autumn of War (Anchor/Vintage, 2002); and Mexifornia:
A State of Becoming (Encounter, 2003). His new book, Ripples
of Battle, will be published by Doubleday in autumn 2003.
(2003)
Web
Site Address: www-hoover.stanford.edu/bios/hanson.htm
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