Professor Emeritus of Classics Victor Davis Hanson, who co-founded the Classics Program at California State University, Fresno and helped bring it to national prominence, has been awarded the Claremont Institute’s Statesmanship Award for 2006.

 

The award will be presented Nov.10 in Beverly Hills during the institute’s annual dinner honoring  Sir Winston Churchill.

 

Past recipients of the award include President Ronald Reagan, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, former Rep. Jack Kemp and former U.S. Secretary of State Caspar Weinberger.

 

Since retiring from Fresno State in 2004, Hanson has been the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services.

 

Hanson joined the Fresno State faculty in 1984 to initiate a Classics Program. He is the author of hundreds of articles, book reviews, scholarly papers and newspaper opinion pieces on matters ranging from Greek, agrarian and military history to foreign affairs, domestic politics, and contemporary culture.

 

He has written or edited 16 books. His latest book, published by Random House in October 2005, is “A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War.”

 

He lives and works with his family on their 40-acre tree and vine farm near Selma.