He was named distinguished alumnus of the year for 2006 at University of California, Santa Cruz. In 1991, Hanson was awarded American Philological Association's Excellence in Teaching Award, given annually to the nation's top undergraduate teachers of Greek and Latin. His academic career ran from 1985, when he was hired at California State University, Fresno to launch a classical studies program, to 2004, when he took early retirement in order to focus on his political writing and popular history. He won the Raphael Demos scholarship at the College Year in Athens (1973–74) and was a regular member of the American School of Classical Studies, Athens, 1978–79. in classics from Stanford University in 1980. with highest honors in classics and general college honors, from Cowell College, at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1975 and his Ph.D. Along with his older brother Nels Hanson, a writer, and fraternal twin Alfred Hanson, a farmer and biologist, Hanson attended public schools and graduated from Selma High School. His mother, Pauline Davis Hanson, was a lawyer and a California superior court and state appeals court justice, his father was a farmer, educator and junior college administrator. Hanson, a Protestant who is of Swedish and Welsh descent, grew up on his grandfather's raisin farm outside Selma, California in the San Joaquin Valley, and has worked there most of his life. 2.2 United States education and classical studies.Bush, and was a presidential appointee in 2007–2008 on the American Battle Monuments Commission. Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. He is a professor emeritus of Classics at California State University, Fresno, the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and visiting professor at Hillsdale College. He has been a commentator on modern and ancient warfare and contemporary politics for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, National Review, The Washington Times, and other media outlets. Victor Davis Hanson (born September 5, 1953) is an American commentator, classicist, and military historian.
Military history, ancient warfare, ancient agrarianism, classics, politics University of California, Santa Cruz ( B.A.) Hanson giving a lecture at Kenyon College in May 2005