The husband-and-wife team of journalist Richard Halloran and author Fumiko Mori Halloran will participate in classroom discussions and hold meetings with students and faculty as Elon’s Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows from Sept. 13-17.
Richard Halloran is a former correspondent with The New York Times and The Washington Post. He covered the armed forces and the Pentagon for the Times and served as bureau chief for Japan, Korea, Taiwan and the Central Pacific. At The Washington Post, he served as economic correspondent in Washington and as Northeast Asia bureau chief.
He has written several books on foreign policy and the U.S. military, and his articles have appeared in the Boston Globe, Orlando Sentinel, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle and other major newspapers. A senior fellow at the Center for War, Peace, and the News Media, Halloran has received several awards for reporting, including the George Polk Award for National Reporting in 1982 and the Gerald Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense in 1988.
Fumiko Mori Halloran is a successful author whose works include “From the City of Washington,” which won the Oya Soichi Award for Best Non-Fiction in 1980. Her other books include “New Elite in the United States,” “Letters from Honolulu: the world as seen from Hawaii,” and a novel, “The Black Wall.”
She has served as senior political analyst at the Japan Economic Institute of America in Washington and as a program officer at the Japan Center for International Exchange in Tokyo.
More than 200 colleges and universities have participated in the Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows program. Successful journalists, government officials, business leaders and ethicists visit college campuses through the program, meeting classes and holding informal discussions with students and faculty.
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