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
Allen P. Splete Award,from the CounciL of Independent Colleges, 2016
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 - 2013
Administrative Serve at Princeton University
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
Professional Activities and Public Service
Chair, Department of Classics, 1972-77
Chair, Committee on Hellenic Studies, 1979-85
Chair, Council on Humanities, 1982-89
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
Books:
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
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)
"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.
Civil Society, Dionysiac Festival, and the Athenian Democracy, in J. Ober and C. Hedrick, eds., Dêmokratia: A Conversation on Democracies, Ancient and Modern (Princeton 1996)
Festival and Democracy in M. Sakellariou, ed., Democratie athenienne et culture (The Academy of Athens, Athens, 1996): 79-89.
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.
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.
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 Ionian Era of Athenian Civic Identity, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Vol. 37, No. 2 (1993): 194-206.
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 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.
The City Dionysia and Athenian Democracy, Classica et Medievalia 40 (1989): 7-32.
Seized by the Nymphs, Classical Antiquity 7 (1988): 155-189.
Early Greek Land Warfare as Symbolic Expression, Past and Present 119 (May 1988): 3-29. Reprinted in Studies in Ancient Greek and Roman Society, ed. Robin Osborne, Cambridge University Press 2004.
Sacred and Secular, Ancient Society (1987): 161-188.
Tribes, Festivals and Processions: Civic Ceremonial and Political Manipulation in Archaic Greece, Journal of Hellenic Studies 107 (1987): 40-50.
Commentary on the Conference: Herodotus and the Invention of History, Arethusa 20 (1987): 155-162.
Historical Writing in the Fourth Century BC and in the Hellenistic Period, Cambridge History of the Greek Literature.
Narrative Discourse in Thucydides, The Greek Historians (Papers presented to AE Raubitschek) (Stanford, 1985): 1-17.
The Razing of the House in Greek Society, Transactions of the American Philological Association 115 (1985): 79-102.
Thyucydides in TJ Luce, ed., Ancient Writers: Greece and Rome Vol. 1 (New York, 1982): 267-289.
Pausanian 3.14.1: A Sidelight on Spartan History, Transactions of the American Philological Association 109 (1979): 71-78.
Thucydides 2.65.12, Arktouros: Hellenic Studies to BMW Knox (Berlin, 1979): 269-271.
A Post-Modernist Thucydidies? Classical Journal 72 (1977): 289.
Tyrannis Polis in J D'Arms and J Eadie, ed. Ancient and Modern Essays in Honor of GF Else (Ann Arbor, 1977): 95-109.
Nicias the Cretan? American Journal of Ancient History 1 (1976): 61-64.
Homo Lucrans? Arion NSI (1974): 731-739.
The Thenian Council: Method and Focus in Some Recent Scholarship, Classical Journal 70 (1974): 32-40.
Lycomedes Against Themistocles, Historia (1972): 569-574.
After Smashing the Wedgwood, The American Scholar (Autumn 1989): 533-541.
Why Were We Surprised? The American Scholar (Spring 1991): 175-184.
The Future of the American University, The Modern University: Its Present Status and Future Prospects (Papers from the Sixth Kenan Convocation, April 22-24, 1993).
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: Revised May 2018
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).