FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Sept. 23, 2005

Contact: Shirley Melikian Armbruster

559.278.5292 or 559.593.1815

Dr. Victor Davis Hanson, a classicist and historian with Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and an emeritus Fresno State professor, will speak on “America at a Crossroads” Wednesday, Sept. 28, at a lecture presented by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at California State University, Fresno.

His presentation and question-answer session will be held from 5:30-7 p.m. in the Satellite Student Union, 5280 N. Jackson Ave. Admission is free for Osher members and $10 for others. A reception for Osher Institute members will precede the lecture.
The Fresno State Osher Institute, inaugurated this fall, offers intellectually stimulating learning and cultural opportunities to people 50 and older.

Hanson, who lives in Selma, is the author of some 170 articles, book reviews and newspaper editorials on Greek, agrarian and military history and contemporary culture. He joined the Fresno State faculty in 1984 to initiate a classics program and left the acclaimed program in 2004 to join the Hoover Institution.

His new book, “A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War,” will be published in October by Random House.

Hanson has received several awards in his career, including the American Philological Association Excellence in Teaching Award (1991), which is given yearly to the country's top undergraduate teachers of Greek and Latin; the Eric Breindel Award for opinion journalism (2002); and Alumnus of the Year at the University of California, Santa Cruz (2002).

Hanson was a visiting professor of classics at Stanford University (1991–92), a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford (1992–93); and an Alexander Onassis Fellow (2001). In 2003-03, he was the visiting Shifrin Chair of Military History at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.
Hanson was educated at the University of California, Santa Cruz (B.A. 1975), the American School of Classical Studies (1978–79) and received his Ph.D. in classics from Stanford University in 1980.

For more information on Fresno State’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute or to RSVP for Sept. 28, call 559.278.0008.

(Copy by University Communications student-intern Megan Jacobsen.)