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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.
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