Peradotto received a Distinguished Retiring Editor award for his work as editor of Arethusa, a noted interdisciplinary journal of classical studies. One of its founding editors in 1968, Peradotto served as editor-in-chief from 1975-95.

The panel of three judges praised Peradotto's contribution to his field through Arethusa as "imaginative and influential," and cited his "radical changes in editorial policy" for helping to move scholarship forward in the field of classics and for expanding the boundaries of the discipline.

The journal under his editorship was also cited for "working against the grain, for originality and subtlety in design, for substance in content." Peradotto also was praised for his efforts to support women's scholarship and scholarship on women's issues.

Last September, Peradotto's UB colleague, Martha Malamud, professor of classics and specialist in late antique literature and Latin poetry, was appointed editor-in-chief of the Arethusa.

Peradotto is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor and an internationally recognized Homeric scholar. He is a former president of the American Philological Association, the national professional association for classical Greek and Latin scholars in the United States and Canada.

During his tenure as the editor of Arethusa, he was responsible for nearly 20 notable theme-centered issues, among them "Population Policy in Plato and Aristotle," "Women in the Ancient World," "Vergil: 2000 Years," "Semiotics and Classical Studies," "Herodotus and the Invention of History," "The Challenge of "Black Athena," "Mikhail Bakhtin and Ancient Studies," "Rethinking the Classical Canon" and "Horace: 2000 Years."

Peradotto has served as the general editor of the SUNY Press Classical Series since 1981 and is a former fellow of Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. He has been a recipient of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Teaching, the most distinguished teaching award bestowed by the New York state university system. He has lectured at more than 50 colleges, universities and classical associations in the U.S. and abroad. His latest book, Man in the Middle Voice: Name and Narration in the Odyssey, was published by Princeton University Press in 1990.