Rate My Professor William Morison

William Morison is an Associate Professor of History at Grand Valley State University (GVSU), with fields of expertise in Greece and Rome as well as World history, and specifically listed under Classical Greece and Rome. His academic background includes a B.A. and an M.A. from California State University, Fresno, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is located in Mackinac Hall D-1-132, telephone (616) 331-2154, and offers office hours on Mondays from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. or by appointment (Fall 2025). Morison serves as faculty advisor for the Grand Valley Journal of History, a peer-reviewed undergraduate journal published through ScholarWorks@GVSU. He has held positions such as Chair of the History Department and departmental liaison.

Morison's publications demonstrate his focus on ancient Greek history and historiography. Key works include the chapter “Kritias of Athens and Oligarchic Propaganda” in Misinformation, Disinformation, and Propaganda in Greek Historiography, edited by T. Figueira and R. Munson (Bloomsbury, 2025); “Regional study: Athens in the fifth century BCE” as Chapter 13 in The Cambridge World History, Volume 4: A World with States, Empires, and Networks 1200 BCE–900 CE (Cambridge University Press, 2015); and “Pherekydes of Athens (Testimonia)” in Brill's New Jacoby, edited by Ian Worthington (Brill Online, 2011). He contributed reviews to the Bryn Mawr Classical Review: Oligarchia: The Development of a Constitutional Form in Ancient Greece by Antonio Tambone (Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001; BMCR 2002.06.32) and Ancient Greek Athletics by Stephen G. Miller (Yale University Press, 2004; BMCR 2004.12.10). Morison mentors students, including on projects such as "Religious Influence on the Spartan Military" in collaboration with the Department of Classics.