Steve Coe

After 22 years of service, Steve Coe (Jour’81) retired from the Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section of the U.S. Department of Justice. Since 2005, Steve helped investigate and prosecute individuals in the U.S. who were suspected of committing human rights violations in 1991–95 in the countries of the former Yugoslavia. Previously, he worked as a historian in the Department of Justice’s Special Investigations division. He studied Russian in the Soviet Union and received a master’s degree in Russian and East European studies from the University of Michigan in 1986 and a Ph.D. in modern Russian history in 1993.