Curriculum Vitae

Walter Robert Connor
b. August 30, 1934 in Worcester, Massachusetts
Married to Carolyn Loessel Connor, children: Christopher and Stephan

Senior Advisor
The Teagle Foundation
570 Lexington Avenue, 38th Floor
New York, NY 10022

North Carolina address:
127  W. Queen Street
Hillsborough, NC 27278
P: (919) 732-9827

Summer phone: 508 564b 5919

wrconnor1@gmail.com

Earned Degrees
  • BA, Hamilton College, 1956
  • PhD in Classics, Princeton University, 1961

Awards, Honors, and Memberships
  • Phi Beta Kappa, Woodrow Wilson, Danforth, ALCS, and NEH fellowships
  • Fulbright Fellow, University College, Oxford, 1956-57
  • Howard Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities, 1986
  • LHD, Hamilton College, 1991
  • LHD, Knox College, 1993
  • Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1992
  • Fellow, American Philosophical Society, 1996

Employment
  • Instructor, University of Michigan, 1960-63
  • Junior Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies, 1963-64
  • Assistant Professor, Princeton University, 1964-70
  • Associate Professor, Princeton University, 1970-72
  • Professor, Princeton University, 1972-89
  • Andrew Fleming West Professor of Classics, 1978-89
  • Professor of Classics, Duke University, 1989-2000
  • Director, National Humanities Center, 1989-2003
  • President, The Teagle Foundation, 2003-2009
  • Senior Advisor, The Teagle Foundation, 2010 - present

Other Teaching and Research Positions
  • Summer sessions at the University of Michigan, the University of Colorado, the Breadloaf School of English
  • Visiting Special Research Fellow, American School of Classical Studies, Athens, 1977-78
  • Fulbright Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia, 1982
  • Visitor, The Institute of Advanced Study, 1985-86

Administrative Serve at Princeton University
  • Chair, Department of Classics, 1972-77
  • Chair, Committee on Hellenic Studies, 1979-85
  • Chair, Council on Humanities, 1982-89

Professional Activities and Public Service
  • American Philological Association: Chair, Committee on the State of Classical Studies, 1969-77; Chair, Nominating Committee, 1975-77; Director, 1980-83; President-elect, 1986-87; President, 1987-88
  • Harvard University: Overseers' Committee to Visit the Classics, 1976-84; Chair, 1979-84; Committee to Visit the Memorial Church, 1995
  • Yale University: University Council Committee on Literature, 1979-83
  • American School of Classical Studies in Athens: Managing Committee, 1973-89; Executive Committee, 1976, 1980, 1985-89
  • University of North Carolina at Asheville: Board of Visitors, 1990-92
  • National Humanities Alliance: Board of Directors, 1991-94
  • Princeton University: Alumni Trustee, 1993-97
  • North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation: Board of Directors, 1994 - present
  • Athens College: Trustee, 1995-1998
  • Institute for Advanced Study: Trustee, 2002 - 2006
  • Environmental Defense: North Carolina Regional Board, 2004 - present
  • New Leadership Alliance for Student Learning and Accountability: Board of Directors, 2009 - present

Books
  • Greek Orations (University of Michigan Press, 1966; re-issued with a new preface, Waveland Press, 1987)
  • Theopompus and Fifth Century Athens (Harvard Press for the Center of Hellenic Studies, 1968)
  • The New Politicians of Fifth Century Athens (Princeton University Press, 1971; re-issued, Hackett Publishing Company, 1992)
  • Thucydides (Princeton University Press, 1984; issued in a paperback edition, 1987)
  • (with Carolyn L. Connor) The Life and Miracles of Saint Luke of Steiris (Hellenic College Press, 1994)


Scholarly Articles
  • Charinus' Megarean Decree, American Journal of Philology 58 (1962): 25-246.
  • Two Notes on Diopeithes the Seer, Classical Philology 58 (1963): 116-188.
  • Theopompus' Treatment of Cimon, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 4 (1963): 107-114.
  • Vim Quandam Incredibilem, A Tradition Concerning the Oratory of Pericles, Classica et Mediaevalia 23 (1963): 23-33.
  • History Without Heroes: Theopompus' Treatment of Philip of Macedon, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 8 (1967): 133-153.
  • Two Notes on Cimon, Transactions of the American Philological Association 98 (1967): 67-75.
  • (With JJ Keaney) Throphrastus on the End of Ostracism, American Journal of Philology 90 (1969): 313-319.
  • The Theseus Myth in Classical Athens, Quest for Theseus (London, 1970): 143-174.
  • Charinus' Megarean Decree Again, Revue des Etudes Grecques 83 (1970): 305-308.
  • Lycomedes Against Themistocles, Historia (1972): 569-574.
  • The Thenian Council: Method and Focus in Some Recent Scholarship, Classical Journal 70 (1974): 32-40.
  • Homo Lucrans? Arion NSI (1974): 731-739.
  • Nicias the Cretan? American Journal of Ancient History 1 (1976): 61-64.
  • Tyrannis Polis in J D'Arms and J Eadie, ed. Ancient and Modern Essays in Honor of GF Else (Ann Arbor, 1977): 95-109.
  • A Post-Modernist Thucydidies? Classical Journal 72 (1977): 289.
  • Thucydides 2.65.12, Arktouros: Hellenic Studies to BMW Knox (Berlin, 1979): 269-271.
  • Pausanian 3.14.1: A Sidelight on Spartan History, Transactions of the American Philological Association 109 (1979): 71-78.
  • Thyucidides in TJ Luce, ed., Ancient Writers: Greece and Rome Vol. 1 (New York, 1982): 267-289.
  • The Razing of the House in Greek Society, Transactions of the American Philological Association 115 (1985): 79-102.
  • Narrative Discourse in Thucydides, The Greek Historians (Papers presented to AE Raubitschek) (Stanford, 1985): 1-17.
  • Historical Writing in the Fourth Century BC and in the Hellenistic Period, Cambridge History of the Greek Literature.
  • Commentary on the Conference: Herodotus and the Invention of History, Arethusa 20 (1987): 155-162.
  • Tribes, Festivals and Processions: Civic Ceremonial and Political Manipulation in Archaic Greece, Journal of Hellenic Studies 107 (1987): 40-50.
  • Sacred and Secular, Ancient Society (1987): 161-188.
  • Early Greek Land Warfare as Symbolic Expression, Past and Present 119 (May 1988): 3-29.
  • Seized by the Nymphs, Classical Antiquity 7 (1988): 155-189.
  • The City Dionysia and Athenian Democracy, Classica et Medievalia 40 (1989): 7-32.
  • The Other 399: Religion and the Trial of Socrates, Georgica: Greek Studies in Honor of George Cawkwell: Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (London, Sup. 58, 1991): 49-56.
  • Polarization in Thucydides in Richard Ned Lebow and Barry S. Strauss, eds., Hegemonic Rivalry from Thucydides to the Nuclear Age (Boulder, 1991): 53-69.
  • The Ionian Era of Athenian Civic Identity, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Vol. 37, No. 2 (1993): 194-206.
  • The Problem of  Athenian Civic Identity in Alan L. Boegehold and Adele C. Scafuro, eds., Athenian Identity and Civic Ideology (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994): 34-44.
  • The Histor in History, Nomodeiktes (Greek Studies in Honor of Martin Ostwald), Ralph M. Rosen and Joseph Farrell, eds. (The University of Michigan Press, 1994): 3-15.
  • Theses and his City in P. Hellstrom and B. Alroth, eds., Religion and Power in the Ancient Greek World, Boreas 24, Uppsla Studies in Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Civilization (Uppsala, 1996): 115-120.
  • Festival and Democracy in M. Sakellariou, ed., Democratie athenienne et culture (The Academy of Athens, Athens, 1996): 79-89.
  • "Reading Thucydides in the Post-Cold War World."
  • Acta: First Panhellenic and International Conference on Ancient Greek Literature in J.Th.A Papademetriou, Hellenic Society of Humanistic Studies (Athens, 1997): 479-493.
  • The Pygmies in the Cage: The Function of the Sublime in Longinusin D. Heiland and L. Rosenthal, editors,  Literary Study, Measurement, and the Sublime: Disciplinary Assessment, The Teagle Foundation 2011 http://www.teaglefoundation.org/disciplinaryassessment/chapters/connor.pdf
  • We Must Call the Classics before a Court of Shipwrecked Men
    Classical World 104 (2011) pp. 483 --493

  • Articles on Higher Education
  • Inside Higher ED, June 2011

    Navigating a Perfect Storm
    National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, June 2011

Miscellaneous Publications
Most encyclopedia articles, studies on the classical profession, reviews in classical journals, newspaper, TLS, op-ed pieces, etc., are omitted.  The following are probably the ones of most interest:
  • The New Classical Humanities and the Old, Classical Journal (1986): 337-347.
  • Humanistic Research, The Humanities in the University, ACLS Occasional Paper no. 6 (New York, 1988): 21-24.
  • Leadership: A View from the Fifth Century BC, Humanitas, vol. 16, no. 2 (1991-92): 19-27.
  • Scholarship and Technology in Classical Studies, in May Katzen, ed., Scholarship and Technology in the Humanities (British Library, 1992): 55-62.
  • Introduction to the Everyman edition of Thucydides, trans. by Richard Crawley (JM Dent, London, 1993).
  • Participatory vs. Representative Democracy, A Challenge to Democracy, Transcripts from the Symposium held on April 22-23, 1994 (Society for the Preservation of the Greek Heritage, Washington DC, 1994).
  • Why We Need Independent Centers for Advanced Study, The Chronicle Review (January 17, 2003). [chronicle.com/article/Why-We-Need-Independent-Cen/11477]

Revised August 2011.