Dr. Augustin Bocco, right, receiving the Alumnus of the Year Award for Lee University’s Department of Language and Literature
Lee University’s Department of Language and Literature honored Dr. Augustin Amevi Bocco as the department’s 2018 Alumnus of the Year. Dr. Bocco received this honor during the department breakfast at Homecoming festivities.
“I consider Augustin’s arrival to our department as a gift from God,” said Dr. James Wilkins, professor of French at Lee. “He arrived with a mission: to study at a university, in peace, in order to become all God intended and gifted him to become.”
Dr. Bocco, originally from Togo, West Africa, graduated from Lee in 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts in French and receiving the Charles Paul Conn Award, which is given to the student who demonstrates the greatest promise of academic and professional achievement beyond the undergraduate level.
He went on to receive his master’s and doctorate degrees from the University of Tennessee, where he was awarded the Graduate Diversity Fellowship.
Dr. Bocco is an associate professor of French at Tennessee Wesleyan University in Athens, Tn., where he has received multiple awards, such as the Lockermiller Teacher of the Year Award and the Dean G. Hall Award, which is given to the faculty member demonstrating effective engagement with students, intellectual integrity, imagination in presentation of subject matter, and enthusiasm in the learning process.
Dr. Bocco and his wife, Kossiwa, have three children, Joella, Samuel, and Jeremiah.