 In 1998 he returned to Cambridge as Lady Margaret's Professor (and as a Fellow at Fitzwilliam College).For the year 1996–97, Stanton was the President of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, a society of New Testament scholars.For nine years (1982–1990) he was editor of the journal "New Testament Studies" and of the associated monograph series (1982–1991), and was a General Editor of the International Critical Commentaries (from 1984 until 2009).