History professor, Dr. Cook, was accepted by the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (CAHS) of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to
participate in a faculty seminar in June for professors, who teach courses and do research on the Holocaust. The subject of the seminar is "Rescuers and Bystanders during the Holocaust: The Historical Significance of Morality and Complicity."

In January 2008, Dr. Cook was also chosen to participate in a faculty seminar at the museum sponsored by the Hess Foundation on "Perpetrators, Victims, and Bystanders".

In March, Dr. Cook participated in a panel at Tulane on "Frozen Conflicts in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union" sponsored by the World Affairs Council of New Orleans. Cook spoke on the conflicts in Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh, and South Ossetia.