Alumni updates

Harry Asa'na Akoh graduated with a Ph.D. from Georgia State University. He studied at the University Cape Town Law School and later earned the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship. He recently published How a Country Treats its Citizens no Longer Exclusive Domestic Concern: A History of the Alien Tort Statute Litigations in the United States for Human Rights Violations Committed in Africa, 1980-2008. He is interested in exploring the evolving historical relationship between international law and international human rights in various municipal jurisdictions.

August 10, 2009, Stephen Bourque will be promoted to full professor at the United States Army School of Advanced Military Studies. The School of Advanced Military Studies, one of the schools of the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College, educates the future leaders of our Armed Forces, our Allies, and the Interagency at the graduate level to be agile and adaptive leaders who think critically at the strategic and operational levels to solve complex ambiguous problems.

J. Stanford Fisher (M.A., history, ’70, TEFL Certificate ‘07) has received one of the Atlanta Korean community’s first six “Proud Citizen” awards for his years of teaching citizenship classes for the Korean American community. Fisher and five other persons were honored for service to the community as part of the celebration of Korean American Day (Jan. 13). The awards were presented jointly by the Korean American Association of Greater Atlanta, the Korean American Foundation of Atlanta and the Choson Foundation. Metro Atlanta is now estimated to be home to the nation’s third largest Korean American population behind Los Angeles and New York.

Tom Opdyke, who graduated with a history degree in 2007, graduated in July from the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, with dual masters' degrees, one in international relations and a second in diplomacy. His course work included a six-month session at the International Peace Research Institute (PRIO) in Oslo, Norway. 

Jeff Roche (B.A. 1992, M.A. 1995) just published a new edited volume, The Political Culture of the New West, with the University of Kansas Press last October. This is his second edited volume on American politics; in 2001, he David Farber edited and published The Conservative Sixties with Peter Lang Publishers.