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Prof. Reizbaum: Finding Pleasure in Difficulty
In a recent talk geared to students, English professor Marilyn Reizbaum reassured her audience that despite living in a time in which we are barraged with quickly digestible media in the form of...
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Dean Scanlon: Sexism and the Civil Rights Movement (New Republic)
Jennifer Scanlon The 1963 “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom” was a historic moment in America’s civil rights movement, writes Dean for Academic Affairs Jennifer Scanlon in The New Republic. But...
View ArticleOff the Shelf: Professor of Philosophy Matthew Stuart
A few weeks ago, we stopped Bowdoin students on campus and asked them to tell us about the books they happened to have with them. In a similar spirit, we’re visiting some Bowdoin professors in their...
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Prof. Rudalevige Reacts to President Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee
Andrew Rudalevige President Barack Obama has made his choice for the next U.S. Supreme Court Justice. He wants Merrick Garland, chief judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, to...
View ArticleOff the Shelf: Associate Professor of English Ann Kibbie
To find out what books Bowdoin professors love, we’re visiting some of them in their offices, asking them to tell us about a book that is meaningful to them. To make it a little impromptu, we pick a...
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Prof. Jeffrey Selinger Comments on US Presidential Race, Obama’s SCOTUS Pick
The 2016 presidential nomination process continues today with three more states, including Arizona and Utah, holding contests. This comes seven days after what the media are calling “Super Tuesday...
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Prof. Allen Springer’s Book Examines Effectiveness of International...
Allen Springer The latest book by Professor of Government Allen Springer looks at the conflicts that can arise when international environmental law clashes with a state’s own aims. Cases of Conflict:...
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Bowdoin to Celebrate 400 Years of Shakespeare
To honor the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in 1616, two professors from Bowdoin’s theater and English departments will present on the First Folio, the first published collection of...
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Professor Allen Wells Discusses President Obama’s Cuba Strategy
President Barack Obama’s recent trip to Latin America was one for the record books: He became the first US leader in nearly 90 years to visit the Caribbean island, which has been ruled by a communist...
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Prof. Chong: The Math Behind iPhone Energy Harvesters, Wall Sound Filters and...
Assistant Professor of Mathematics Christopher Chong works on math that might one day lead to walls that filter out traffic noise but let in birdsong, gigantic underground coils that protect cities...
View ArticleOff the Shelf: Lecturer in Russian Michael Klimov
We’ve been visiting some Bowdoin professors in their offices, asking them to tell us about a special or important book. To make it a bit impromptu, we pick a shelf from which the professor then must...
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Bowdoin’s Rudalevige Skeptical that Business Acumen Translates to Political...
Andrew Rudalevige In a new article, the L.A. Times explores the ways in which Donald Trump’s businesses could pose political, financial and ethical problems to his presidency. Andrew Rudalevige,...
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Professor Allen Springer Explains Lifting of US Oil Export Ban
This year saw the resumption of US oil exports with American crude now flowing to new markets across the globe. The lifting of the ban was the result of some serious negotiations in Congress between...
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The Evolutionary Benefits of Cloning, According to Bowdoin Ecologist
To draw in crowds to his lectures, Assistant Professor of Biology Vlad Douhovnikoff jokes that he sometimes call his talks, “Why Sex is Overrated.” The ecologist focuses his research on plants...
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Faculty Collaboration Reassesses Chekhov as a “Thinker” As Well As “Dramatist”
Bowdoin’s Russian and Theater departments are collaborating for a pair of events Friday and Saturday designed to re-examine the work of Anton Chekhov. Alongside his role as a renowned dramatist, the...
View ArticleAnalyzing African Pottery: Archaeology Meets Math in Groundbreaking...
Over the past two decades Bowdoin Professor Anthropology Scott MacEachern and his team have excavated a huge amount of pottery from several large mound sites in the Lake Chad Basin in Africa. With a...
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Bowdoin Sociologist Wins Fellowship to Write about Mexican Farmworker Movement
Marcos Lopez Last year when thousands of farmworkers in Mexico went on strike to protest their low wages and squalid living conditions, The Los Angeles Times called on Marcos Lopez to learn about the...
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Bowdoin’s Rudalevige on Presidential Politics: ‘Sore Losers and Glass Ceilings’
The presidential nomination process has, over history, led to some very “sore losers,” said Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of Government Andrew Rudalevige. And that has helped shape and change that...
View ArticleOff the Shelf: Professor of History Dallas Denery
We’ve been visiting Bowdoin professors in their offices, asking them to tell us about a special or important book. To make it impromptu, we pick a shelf from which the professor then must select a...
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From Dante to Battlestar Galactica: Analyzing ‘World’ Science Fiction
Arielle Saiber Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literature Arielle Saiber is happy that science fiction is at last being recognized as a worthy subject in the academic world. Furthermore,...
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