This award recognizes non-alumni for demonstrated loyalty and devotion to Wittenberg University that is exemplary to alumni and to those who have long and well served the institution and have worked diligently to sustain it.

Dr. James Huffman

Also being recognized during the weekend is H. Orth Hirt Professor of History James Huffman. One of the most respected East Asian scholars in the world, Huffman will be awarded honorary alumnus status this weekend. Given to those who have demonstrated a loyalty and devotion to Wittenberg that is exemplary to alumni and who have worked diligently to sustain it, the award is the latest of many that Huffman has received in his 30-year career at Wittenberg.

Recipient of four Fulbright Awards, winner of the Alumni Association’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, Wittenberg’s most prestigious faculty prize, as well as the Ohio Academy of History’s Distinguished Teaching Award, Huffman is the author of four books and an expert on Japan’s Meiji era. His books include Creating a Public: People and Press in Meiji Japan; A Yankee in Meiji Japan: The Crusading Journalist Edward H. House; Modern Japan: A History in Documents and Politics of the Meiji Press: The Life of Fukuchi Gen’ichir.

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