In July 2020, history department alum Jeffrey Giauque was made Chargé d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Minsk, Belarus. Giauque has a BA in history and French from the University of Utah and an MA and PhD from Ohio State University in European international history and the history of American foreign relations.  He wrote his doctoral dissertation on the European Economic Community, the predecessor of the EU, and taught international relations and European history at Miami University (Ohio).  Find out more here.