Maura Fulton (International Development Studies, '99) has extended her education well beyond the classroom from Athens to Thailand to Washington, DC. She received her Master’s degree in International Development Studies in 1999, and with many years of service across the globe with the Peace Corps, became the executive director of Peace Corps Encore! in 2005. Click here to read more about Fulton as Maria Gallucci has recently taken her interview.

Reed Aeschliman (Southeast Asian Studies, '86) is a Foreign Service Officer with the United States Agency for International Development 'USAID' (2000 - present). He is currently based at the US Embassy in Cambodia. Previous postings included India and Afghanistan. Prior to joining the Foreign Service with USAID, he worked as a legal and business consultant in E/SE Asia based mostly in Bangkok and Beijing (1994 - 2000).

Mari Ellingson (International Development Studies, '97) is based in London, UK where she works for the Commonwealth Secretariat as Adviser/Head of Planning.

Nasim Farach (Latin American Studies, '06) is the Communication Coordinator of HIV Youth Prevention Programs for the Honduran office of Health Communication Partnership, a partnership between the Academy for Educational Development, USAID and the Center for Communication Programs at Johns Hopkins University.

Selam Gerzher-Alemayo (African Studies, '06) studied advanced Somali at the Summer Cooperative African Language Institute at Indiana University with the support of a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship.

Sung Sik John, (Southeast Asian Studies, '01, is the proud father of twin baby girls, born in January 2006.

Troy Johnson (International Development Studies, '06) attended the Advanced Indonesian Abroad program this summer in Manando, North Sulawesi. He will spend the next year in Indonesia researching nation-wide voter education projects initiated by Muslim organizationson with the support of a Fulbright award.

Yosep Bambang Margono (Southeast Asian Studies, '03) is teaching and has been regularly writing essays on Javanese literature. He plans to join his wife Cecelia in Iowa City soon, where she is pursuing her doctoral degree at the University of Iowa.

Thomas (Spree) MacDonald (African Studies, '06) studied elementary Zulu at the Summer Cooperative African Language Institute at Indiana University. This fall he will be the first student in Ohio University’s interdisciplinary African arts doctoral program.

Sonia Marcus (Communication & Development Studies, '06) has been hired by Ohio University Facilities and Auxiliaries as the resource conservation coordinator. Ohio University is the first public institution of higher education in the state to create a position of this kind. In this position, Marcus will be responsible for the outreach, communication and education for topics such as resource conservation, energy efficiency and campus sustainability. She will be involved in a range of university committees and groups, including the Energy and Ecology Committee, Campus Recycling, the Green Network, Sierra Student Coalition, Sustainable Living and the OHIO Ecohouse. Marcus is the coordinator for two Ohio University energy conservation efforts: OHIO Unplugged, an energy awareness event this October; and the Residence Challenge, a residence hall energy conservation competition.

Christopher Mills (Southeast Asian Studies, '06) studied beginning Khmer at the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI) in Madison, Wisconsin this summer. He is a Foreign Area Officer with the United States Army and will assume a post in Cambodia this fall.

Jida Mohamad (Communication & Development Studies, '01) works in the Corporate Communications office of TV3 in Kuala Lumpur.

Sukidi Mulyadi (Southeast Asian Studies, '04) published "Max Weber's Remarks on Islam: The Protestant Ethic Among Muslim Puritans" in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Vol. 17, no. 2, April 2006, pp. 195-205.

Teresa Reimers (Communication and Development Studies, '06) received one of four Next Generation Fellowships awarded by the National Bureau of Asian Research for 2006-2006. Next Generation Fellows work on NBR program-based research projects and participate in the effective delivery of that research to the foreign policy community.

Dan Rooney (International Development Studies, '06) is a portfolio analyst for the African Development Foundation, a United States government agency in Washington, D.C.

Melinda Sallyards (International Studies, '85) serves as Agricultural Attache at the U.S. Embassy in Lima, Peru.

Major Ronald Sargent (Southeast Asian Studies, '06) has taken up his post as Chief of the Office of Defense Cooperation at the US Embassy in Dili, East Timor.

Mark Silverman (1976) was transferred to USAID headquarters in Washington D.C. this summer. He previously served as USAID Director in El Salvador before being selected by the USAID Administrator to be the Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean bureau. Silverman has served in the foreign service in Afghanistan, Egypt (twice), Peru, Washington, Nicaragua and El Salvador.

Abdul Wahib "Ucok" Situmorang (Southeast Asian Studies, '04), recently published his first book "The Politics of Reproductive Health, Gender and Population: A Parliamentary Perspective." His research for this book was supported by Hewlett Foundation, AFPPD, IFPPD and UNFPA.

Alexis Taylor (International Studies, '06) was awarded a French government English teaching assistantship for the 2006-07 academic year.

Mo Tejani (International Development Studies '84) is the author of 'A Chameleon's Tale: True Stories of a Global Refugee' (Paiboon Publishing). Mo Tejani - an Indian Shia Muslim by ancestry - was expelled from Idi Amin's Uganda in 1972. Torn apart from his family and exiled from his
continent of birth, he was left homeless, without sense of his own cultural identity. Over the next three decades on the road, he worked with non-profit agencies, learned a slew of new languages, met fellow cultural nomads in forlorn places, and became involved in some of the
world's most significant historical events. Mo currently lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where he writes feature articles and stories for various travel magazines. More information at www.mo-tejani.com

Tom Wolf (African Studies, '73; Ph.D., University of Sussex, UK) is one of a group of authors responsible for the just-published (2006)collection, 'Legacies of Power: Leadership Change and Former Presidents in African Politics', published jointly by the Human Sciences Research Council Press of South Africa and the Nordik Afrika Institut of Sweden. The project, supported by the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the Swedish International Development Authority, examined ten cases in (Anglophone) Africa where long-serving presidents either lost elections or succumbed to constitutional term-limits and retired (as well as two cases - Mugabe of Zimbabwe and Museveni of Uganda - where this has not happened). Wolf contributed the chapter on retired Kenya president, D. Moi. More information can be found at: www.hsrc.ac.za, by clicking on "HSRC Press." Tom continues to work as a governance consultant and independent researcher in Nairobi.