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(from the Shields of Theta Delta Chi, vol 117, number 1, Spring 2004)
Eta Deuteron Brother Awarded Rhodes Scholaship
Jared Cohen, Eta Deuteron '04 (Stanford), was one of 32 American students selected as a Rhodes scholar in February from 963 applicants. Brother Cohen is a history and political science major with a passionate interest in African politics and human rights.
Since the age of ten, Jared has traveled extensively through Africa, visiting 21 countries in all. Being kidnapped while riding a camel in Egypt and being held up at gunpoint in Morocco have not damped his enthusiasm for the continent. Events like these have only increased his commitment to human rights in Africa and may have led to his slipping into the Eastern Congo under a pile of bananas to meet with the perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide during his freshman year at Stanford.
In high school Jared started a nonprofit organization to send school supplies and teaching aides to Tanzania. While in Palo Alto, he completed an honor theses, "The Absence of Decision-Making: U.S. Policy Towards Rwanda from the Arusha Process Through the Genocide" on the 1994 Rwandan genocide. For his thesis he received the Hines Prize for the best senior honors thesis from Stanford's History Department, and he is working to make the thesis into a book. He is fluent in Swahili and conversational in the other African languages of Maa and Kilarusa. He can also read Arabic, Korean, Hebrew, and Amharic, the language of Ethiopia.
To add to an already impressive agenda, Jared, along with fellow Eta Deuts Adam Forest '05 and Eric Kramon '04, founded the magazine "Six Degrees: A Stanford Journal on Human Rights", which aims to promote human rights awareness on the Palo Alto campus. For a recent issue Brother Cohen recently interviewed Kenneth Kaunda, who served as the president of Zambia for 27 years.
While at Oxford, he plans on study for a doctoral degree in comparative politics or international relations with the eventual long-term goal of serving as the U.S. national security advisor.
Theta Delta Chi wishes Brother Jared Cohen the best for his studies and future endeavors.
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