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Victor Davis Hanson (born September 5, 1953) is an American military historian, columnist, former classics professor, and scholar of ancient warfare. He has been a commentator on modern warfare and contemporary politics for ''National Review'' and other media outlets. He was a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, Fresno, and is currently the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He has been a visiting professor at Hillsdale College since 2004.〔("Works and Days: Back to the Future?" ) by Victor Davis Hanson, PajamasMedia.org, August 29, 2006〕 Hanson is perhaps best known for his 2001 book ''Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power''. Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush.〔 (2007 National Humanities Medal winners ) at the National Endowment for the Humanities' website〕 Hanson is a blogger on current affairs, particularly regarding the U.S. in the Middle East and the U.S.-Mexico situation, and is also a fifth-generation farmer, growing raisin grapes on a family farm in Selma, California, and a critic of social trends related to farming and agrarianism. ==Early life, education and today== Hanson, who is of Swedish descent, grew up on a family farm at Selma, California in the San Joaquin Valley. His mother was a lawyer and judge, his father an educator and college administrator. Along with his older brother Nils and fraternal twin Alfred, Hanson attended public schools and graduated from Selma High School. Hanson received his BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1975〔("VDH Private Papers" ) Victor Davis Hanson website, accessed August 8, 2010〕 and his PhD in classics from Stanford University in 1980. He is a Protestant Christian.〔("Do We Want Mexifornia?" ), Victor Davis Hanson, ''City Journal'', Spring 2002〕 Hanson is currently a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Fellow in California Studies at the Claremont Institute, and professor emeritus at California State University, Fresno,〔("Classical Studies Program", California State University, Fresno )〕 where he began teaching in 1984, having created the classics program at that institution. In 1991 Hanson was awarded an American Philological Association's Excellence in Teaching Award, which is awarded to undergraduate teachers of Greek and Latin.〔 He has been a visiting professor of classics at Stanford University (1991–92), National Endowment for the Humanities fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California (1992–93), as well as holding the visiting Shifrin Chair of Military History at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland (2002–03). Hanson writes a weekly column syndicated by Tribune Media Services, and has been published in ''The New York Times'', ''American Heritage'', and ''The New Criterion'', among other publications. In 2006, he started blogging at PJ Media. In 2007, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Victor Davis Hanson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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