Strauss holds a B.A. from Cornell and a Ph.D. from Yale and has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, the MacDowell Colony for the Arts, the Korea Foundation, and the Killam Foundation of Canada.
He was Assistant Professor of General and Comparative Linguistics at the University of Regensburg, Germany, until July 2012, and a Korea Foundation Fellow from September 2012 until August 2013.
South Korea | Korea | North Korea | National Science Foundation | Ford Foundation | Rockefeller Foundation | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | Electronic Frontier Foundation | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | New York Foundation for the Arts | Mozilla Foundation | Guggenheim Foundation | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation | Korea under Japanese rule | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | Wikimedia Foundation | Republic of Korea Navy | Apache Software Foundation | foundation | Make-A-Wish Foundation | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation | Clinton Foundation | Open Software Foundation | Korea University | Konex Foundation | Foundation series | South Korea national football team | Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | Carnegie Foundation | United States Forces Korea |
He was also a Research Fellow of Korea Foundation in 1996-1997, a visiting scholar at Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University in 1998-1999, a visiting scholar at Asiatic Research Center of Korea University in 2001, a visiting scholar at Sejong Institute in 2006, and a visiting fellow at Faculty of Asian Studies of the Australian National University in 2008.