Despite never holding a salaried academic post, Stray has held numerous prestigious fellowships and honorary positions, including: Honorary Research Fellowship, Dept of History and Classics, Swansea University (from 1989); Visiting Fellowship, Wolfson College Cambridge (1996–98); John D and Rose H Jackson Fellowship, Beinecke Library, Yale University (2005); Senior Research Fellowship, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London (2010–18); Member of the School of Historical Studies"," Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2012).