Barry S. Strauss (born November 27, 1953) is an American historian. He is a professor of history and humanistic studies at Cornell University, and a visiting Corliss Page Dean Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Strauss holds a B.A. from Cornell and a Ph.D. from Yale (advised by Donald Kagan) and has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, the American Academy in Rome, the MacDowell Colony for the Arts, the Korea Foundation, and the Killam Foundation of Canada. He is an honorary citizen of Salamis, Greece. Strauss is Director of Cornell's Program on Freedom and Free Societies and past Director of its Peace Studies Program. At Cornell, he teaches courses on the history of ancient Greece, war and peace in the ancient world, history of battle, introduction to military history, and specialized topics in ancient history.
Video Title: Why the Jews Resisted Rome | Barry Strauss on the Tikvah Podcast. Source: Tikvah. Date Published: August 18, 2025.
