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Huff
receives Order of the Palmetto
A.V. Huff,
Jr., vice president for academic affairs and dean and pre-eminent historian
of the South and South Carolina, has been awarded the state of South Carolina's
highest civilian honor.
Huff, who will retire at the conclusion of the academic year, received the Order of the Palmetto at his retirement dinner April 25. President David Shi, representing Governor Mark Sanford, presented the award.
Huff joined the Furman history faculty in 1968 and has served as academic dean since 1995. A specialist on the history of the American South and South Carolina, Huff is chair of the South Carolina Commission on Archives and History and has been president of the South Carolina Historical Association.
He has written and edited several influential books, including The History of South Carolina in the Building of a Nation, Greenville: City and County in the South Carolina Piedmont and Langdon Cheves of South Carolina.
Huff was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Yale University and a Southern Studies Scholar at Duke University. Prior to becoming vice president and dean, he served as chair of the Furman faculty and chair of the history department and held the William Montgomery Burnett Chair in History. A native of Columbia and a 1959 graduate of Wofford College, Huff received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history from Duke. He also earned a B.D. degree from Yale.
