Featured Speaker:
Dr. Larry Hufford

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Larry Hufford, Ph.D., joined St. Mary’s University in 1993 as a professor of Political Science/International Relations. Prior to joining St. Mary’s, Hufford taught Political Science/Peace and Justice Studies at the University of the Incarnate Word (then Incarnate Word College) for 20 years. He previously worked with the United Farm Workers during the Talisman Sugar company strike in 1972 and was a VISTA volunteer in Robstown, Texas, in 1966-67. From August 1967 to August 1968, Hufford was an Instructor of American Government at Texas A&I University in Kingsville.

In past years, Hufford lectured at universities in Australia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Bangladesh, Mexico, England, Spain, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Sweden. He served as an official non- governmental organization (NGO) observer for presidential elections in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala. He is the past president of the International World Council for Curriculum and Instruction, a Peace Education NGO with B Status in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and, past president of the Economic and Business Historical Society. In addition to his presidencies, he has held leadership positions in a variety of organizations. He has served as a board member of the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Social and Economic Justice, the Society of Mary Committee for Social Justice and Global Awareness, and Merced Housing of Texas. He was a board member and president of the San Antonio Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Christians for Peace in El Salvador (CRISPAZ) and North American Communities: United for Equity (NAC:UE).

Hufford has authored/edited five books and co-authored four. The titles are:

• Educating For A Worldview: Focus on Globalizing Curriculum and Instruction;

• Educating for Balance: Science Technology and the Human Spirit;

• Meet the Professor: Essays in Philosophy by Sean Burke;

• The United States in Central America: An Analysis of the Kissinger Commission Report;

• D.B.: Reminiscences of D.B. Hardeman;

• Bridging Two Cultures: Multidisciplinary Readings in Bilingual Bicultural Education;

• Sweden’s Power Elite;

• Sweden: The Myth of Socialism; 

• Icke-Våld (Nonviolence).

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Hufford served the City of San Antonio in the following ways: chairperson of the City Land Use and Transportation Committee; the City Planning Commission (1981-1984); chairperson of the research task force for the City Community Revitalization Action Group (CRAG) (1997-1999); member of CRAG II (1999-2001); chairperson of the Alternatives to Violence Issue Team; member of the City Educational Facilities Corporation; City Blue Ribbon Committee on Redistricting; and, the City/County Task Force on Tax Abatement Policy. Texas Gov. Anne Richards appointed Hufford to serve on the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners District IV Review Committee (1994-2000).

Hufford received the St. Mary’s University Alumni Association’s Distinguished Faculty Award (1997 and 2002) and the Marianist Heritage Award (2005); he was a Danforth Foundation Associate (1977-1983); Piper Professor of Texas (1983) one of ten in the State of Texas; Moody Foundation Professor (1988-1990); and, Visiting Researcher at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research (Uppsala University, Sweden, 1984-1985). Hufford has received multiple community awards including the Douglas Foundation Community Leadership Award (1993), the Baha’i Unity of Humanity Award (2012), and the Dialogue Institute Friendship Award (2017).

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Hufford authored 31 articles that have appeared in the National Catholic Reporter, Texas Observer, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Current Research on Peace and Violence, America, Essays in Economic and Business History, Journal of Interdisciplinary Education, Hispanic Outlook, International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, Revista Espaco Academico (Brazil), and Race Today (England). Opinion pieces have appeared on the editorial pages of the Christian Science Monitor, San Antonio Express-News, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Oregonian, Newsday, Dallas Morning News, Houston Chronicle, Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Amarillo News-Globe, San Antonio Current, the now-defunct San Antonio Light, Rivard Report and the Baltimore Evening Sun.

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From August 1972 through fall 2019, Hufford presented 89 papers at professional conferences, including conferences in Canada, Mexico, Sweden, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Japan, the Netherlands, Egypt, India, Bangladesh, Thailand, Taiwan, the Philippines, Australia, Spain, Vietnam, Israel, West Bank Palestine, Northern Ireland and England. Hufford has held six photo exhibits illustrating global experiences at Defiance College (Ohio), Augsburg College (Minnesota), Grinnell College (Iowa), St. Mary’s University (Texas) and Providence High School (Texas).