Dr. Bruce Thornton, professor of classics and humanities at California State University, Fresno, has been named to a one-year fellowship at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
The W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellowship for 2009-10 will allow Thornton to work on his book, “The Anatomy of Appeasement: From Ancient Greece to the War on Terror.” He is the only California State University system professor named to a fellowship next year.
Thornton, a professor at Fresno State since 1985, has written eight books. He has lectured on ancient Greece and Rome across the country and overseas and appeared on radio programs and television shows on the History Channel and PBS’s “Uncommon Knowledge.”
His commentary appears in FrontPage online magazine, VDH’s Private Papers, Pajamas Media and other Web sites and in journals such as Commentary, First Things, Weekly Standard, Claremont Review of Books, The New Criterion and others.
The Hoover Institution is a public policy research center whose world-renowned scholars are devoted to advanced study of politics, economics and political economy – both domestic and foreign – as well as international affairs.
Thornton is the second Fresno State faculty member to win a Hoover fellowship. Dr. Victor Davis Hanson, who also taught classics before retiring in 2004, is a senior fellow.
