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Speaker: Donald Kagan, Hillhouse Professor of History and Classics, Yale University

Donald Kagan is Hillhouse Professor of Classics and History at Yale. He received his Ph. D from Ohio State University in 1958, after which he held teaching posts at Ohio State, Penn State and Cornell before coming toYale in 1969. Dr, Kagan has served Yale as Chair of the Classics Department, Master of Timothy Dwight College Acting Director of Athletics, and Dean of Yale College. Dr. Kagan has received many academic distinctions, including appointments at the Cener For Advanced Sudy at Stanford and the Woodrow Wilson International Center For Scholars at Princeton. He is aso one of the university's most distinguished teachers, having received both the DeVane medal for
scholarship and teaching and the Haywood Byrnes teaching prize from Yale College. Dr. Kagan is the author of While America Sleeps, Pericles of Athens and The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, among other books.

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