Biography of Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson

Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow

Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie
Anderson 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 (1992ñ93), a
visiting professor of classics at Stanford University (1991ñ92), 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 (2002ñ3).

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.

Hanson coauthored, with John Heath, Who Killed Homer? The Demise of
Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom (Free Press, 1998;
paperback ed. Encounter Press, 2000) and, with Bruce Thornton and John Heath, Bonfire
of the Humanities (ISI Books, 2001).

Hanson has written essays, editorials, and reviews for the New York Times,
the Wall Street Journal, the International Herald Tribune, the New
York Post, National Review, American Heritage, Policy
Review, Commentary, National Review, the Wilson
Quarterly, the Weekly Standard, Daily Telegraph, and Washington
Times and has been interviewed often on National Public Radio, the PBS Newshour,
and C-Span BookTV. Currently, he is a weekly columnist for the National
Review Online and serves on the editorial board of Arion, the Military
History Quarterly, and City Journal, as well as the board of the
Claremont Institute.

Hanson was educated at the University of California, Santa Cruz (B.A. 1975),
the American School of Classical Studies (1978ñ79) and received his Ph.D. in
classics from Stanford University in 1980.

He currently lives and works with his family on their forty-acre tree and
vine farm near Selma, California, where he was born in 1953.

Almost everything else you need to know about Victor Davis Hanson can be
found at:
http://victorhanson.com/

For a quick list of all his contributions to National Review Online:
http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson-archive.asp