AASU Names Hopkins Interim Department Head of History

Savannah, GA—July 19, 2005—Armstrong Atlantic State University (AASU) announces that June Hopkins, associate professor of history, has been named interim head of the Department of History.

An academic for over ten years, Hopkins' research interest is U.S. history. She is the author of Harry Hopkins: Sudden Hero, Brash Reformer (1999) and Jewish first wife, divorced: The Correspondence of Ethel Gross and Harry Hopkins (2002). She also has served as the associate editor of The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, The Human Rights Years, 1945-1962, in Washington, DC. Hopkins is the author of eleven academic articles and has made presentations at twenty-six academic meetings held nationally. Recently, she was selected to participate in a fellowship offered by the Sasakawa Foundation and the Japanese Studies Institute that focuses on Japanese history and culture. Hopkins also was selected as a Governor's Teaching Fellow for the state of Georgia, 2004-05. She earned a Ph.D. in history from Georgetown University.