David L. Berkey is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution working with Victor Davis Hanson in the fields of classics and military history. Before coming to Hoover, Berkey was a professor in the Department of History at California State University, Fresno. He holds a BA in international studies from the Johns Hopkins University and a PhD in classics and ancient history from Yale University. Berkey has studied at both the American Academy in Rome and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.