W. Robert Connor

W. Robert Connor is Senior Advisor to the President of the Teagle Foundation and was the Foundation's President from 2003 to 2009. Bob was born in Worcester Massachusetts, graduated from Hamilton College, and after a stint at Oxford received his Ph.D in Classics from Princeton in 1961. A few years later, he returned to Princeton, where he taught and administered until 1989, when he became president and director of the National Humanities Center in the Research Triangle Park of North Carolina. He lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina with his Byzantinist wife, Carolyn Connor, and their Labrador, Cree. He holds honorary degrees from several colleges and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.