Editing Victor Davis Hanson (section)

==Academic career: 1985–2004==
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Hanson notes autobiographically that he was "a full-time orchard and vineyard grower from 1980-1984, before joining the nearby CSU" ([[California State University, Fresno]]) in 1984, to launch a classical studies program there.<ref name="fresno"/> In 1991, Hanson was awarded the [[American Philological Association]]'s Excellence in Teaching Award, given annually to the nation's top undergraduate teachers of Greek and Latin.<ref name="fresno"/> He was named distinguished alumnus of the year for 2006 at University of California, Santa Cruz.<ref name="fresno">{{cite web| author = Hanson, Victor Davis | date = 2018-10-15 | title = Classical Studies Program—Faculty: Victor Davis Hanson | format = faculty autobiography | work = Fresno State, Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures | location = Fresno, CA | publisher = California State University, Fresno | url=http://www.fresnostate.edu/artshum/mcll/faculty-staff/hanson.html | archive-date=October 15, 2018 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181015184140/http://www.fresnostate.edu/artshum/mcll/faculty-staff/hanson.html|url-status= dead | quote = Hanson, who was the fifth successive generation to live in the same house on his family's farm, was a full-time orchard and vineyard grower from 1980-1984, before joining the nearby CSU...}}</ref> He has been a visiting professor of classics at Stanford University in California (1991–1992) and a [[National Endowment for the Humanities]] fellow at the [[Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences]], Stanford, California (1992–1993).<ref name = HansonNROTCautobio/> He was named a [[Alexander Onassis]] <!--traveling -->Fellow <!--to [[Greece]]--> (2001),<ref name = HansonNROTCautobio/> and a Nimitz Fellow at [[University of California, Berkeley]] (2006),{{cn|date=February 2025}} and held the visiting Shifrin Chair of Military History at the [[U.S. Naval Academy]], [[Annapolis, Maryland]] (2002–2003).<ref name = HansonNROTCautobio>{{Cite web | author = Hanson, Victor Davis | date = 2006 | title=2006 Speaker—Dr. Victor Davis Hanson | format = speaker autobiography | work = NROTC.Berkeley.edu |url= https://nrotc.berkeley.edu/2006-speaker-dr-victor-davis-hanson/ |access-date=2024-03-12 | location = Berkeley, CA | publisher = Berkeley Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC)}}{{better source|date=February 2025}}</ref>{{better source|date=February 2025}}

In 2004, he took early retirement to focus on his political writing and popular history.<ref>{{cite news | first = Rone | last = Tempest | title = Right Way to Farm the Classics | work = The Los Angeles Times | date = 25 February 2004 | url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-feb-25-me-hanson25-story.html | access-date = 2025-02-12}}</ref> Hanson has held a series of positions in conservative-leaning institutions and private foundations.{{cn|date=February 2025}}<!--Someone besides a WP editor needs to take ownership of the perspective that the "series of positions" Hanson held were at "conservative-leaning institutions and private foundations".--> He was appointed Fellow in California Studies at the [[Claremont Institute]], a conservative think-tank in California,{{cn|date=February 2025}} in 2002.{{citation needed |date=October 2023}}<!--THE FOLLOWING CITATION DOES *NOT* IN ANY PROPER FASHION SUPPORT THE PRECEDING ASSERTION; WHAT IT STATES NOW APPEARS IN A QUOTE HEREIN:  <ref>{{Cite web | author = Hanson, Victor Davis & CRB Staff | date = 12 February 2025 | title = Victor Davis Hanson | format = contributor's biographical blurb | work = [[Claremont Review of Books]] | url= https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/author/victor-davis-hanson/|quote = [Entirety of text appearing is] Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow of Classics and Military History at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.}}</ref>-->

Hanson was appointed as a Senior Fellow at the [[Hoover Institution]], Stanford, California, another conservative think-tank.{{when|date=February 2025}}{{citation needed |date=October 2023}} He served as a William Simon Visiting Professor at the [[School of Public Policy at Pepperdine University]], a private Christian institution in California, from 2009–2015,{{citation needed |date=October 2023}} and was awarded in 2015 an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the graduate school at [[Pepperdine University|Pepperdine]].{{citation needed |date=October 2023}} He gave the Wriston Lecture in 2004 for the [[Manhattan Institute]] whose mission is to "develop and disseminate new ideas that foster greater economic choice and individual responsibility."{{citation needed |date=October 2023}} He became a board member of the [[Bradley Foundation]] in 2015 and served on the [[HF Guggenheim Foundation]] board for over a decade.{{citation needed|date=March 2019}}