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The Latke? Or the Hamentasch? Professors Debate Superior Treat
Bowdoin College Hillel, run by Talia Cowen ’16 and Zachary Albert ’16, recently organized a campus debate on which is the superior treat: latkes or hamentaschen. Albert described it as “the greatest...
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Bowdoin’s Rudalevige on Executive Orders (USA Today)
Andrew Rudalevige Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin’s Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of Government, is tapped for his expertise in the president’s use of executive orders in the USA Today article “Obama’s...
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Russia on the Rise? Is Putin’s Bravado a Sign of Strength or Weakness?
Laura Henry Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to flex his muscles on the international stage. Since Putin re-assumed the presidency in 2012, Moscow has annexed Crimea and intervened in...
View ArticleOff the Shelf: Harrison King McCann Professor of English Marilyn Reizbaum
This is the latest episode of Off the Shelf, in which we ask a professor about a special or important book in their office. To make it somewhat impromptu, we select a shelf from which the professor...
View ArticleSample Size: A Quick Look at Bowdoin Scientists
Interested in hearing from some of Bowdoin’s scientists about their expertise? Wilder Nicholson ’16 has collaborated with Biology Department Chair Nat Wheelwright to create a series of brief videos...
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Bowdoin Archaeologist Headed to Greenland to Investigate Ancient Arctic Mystery
Archaeologist Genevieve LeMoine, curator of Bowdoin’s Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, has received a National Science Foundation grant to travel to Greenland this summer to excavate an intriguing site...
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Lunatics: Men, Women and the Moon in Early Modern France
The intellectual debate that flourished in renaissance and early modern France is often described by scholars as a “battle of the sexes” — a battle in which women were often accused of being...
View ArticleOff the Shelf: Professor of Anthropology Scott MacEachern
In this series, we visit Bowdoin professors in their offices, asking them to tell us about a special or important book. To make it a little harder, we select a shelf from which the professor then must...
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Anne Frank and Sukarno as Icons of Dutch Historical Memory
Frances Gouda For countries like the Netherlands that were invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany, the subject of World War II can be painful to discuss. According to Dutch historian Frances Gouda,...
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Dedicated to History: College Opens ‘Harriet’s Writing Room’ to Public
Harriet Beecher Stowe House One of the front two parlors of the former home of Harriet Beecher Stowe, at 63 Federal Street, has been turned into a public exhibit space to commemorate Stowe’s literacy...
View ArticleOld-School Tweeting: Campus Teams Compete in 2nd Annual Birdathon
For the second year in a row, biology professor Nat Wheelwright organized a campus-wide Birdathon, inviting students, staff, and faculty to try to identify as many birds as possible in 90 minutes....
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Muslim Students: What You Don’t Know About Islam and the Qur’an
The Muslim Student Association and the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life recently organized several events on campus to help broaden the community’s conceptions of Islam. These included a talk on...
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Rudalevige Explores the Legality of War on the Islamic State (Monkey Cage)
Andrew Rudalevige is Bowdoin’s Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of Government In his latest “Monkey Cage” article for the Washington Post, Bowdoin government professor Andrew Rudalevige wonders why...
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Faculty, Staff, Students, Community Members Given Common Good Awards
President Clayton Rose, along with staff from the Joseph McKeen Center, came together on May 5 to honor members of the Bowdoin community for their dedication to advancing the common good. Read more.
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New Corequisite Combines Documentary Photography with Writing
Photo from “Two Echo” by Nevan Swanson A group of Bowdoin students have spent much of the Spring semester engaged in a process requiring them to use “both their brains.” A new corequisite brings...
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Bowdoin’s Rael Discusses 14th Amendment (Maine Public Radio)
Patrick Rael One hundred and fifty years ago next month, the 14th Amendment was enacted. It may not be the best known chapter of America’s constitutional history, but it is cited in more litigation...
View ArticleOff the Shelf: History and Environmental Studies Professor Connie Chiang
In the latest installment of our series “Off the Shelf,” we visited Connie Chiang, associate professor of history and environmental studies. The idea of the series is for faculty members to pick a book...
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Bowdoin’s Yarbrough on Roosevelt vs. Trump (Howie Carr Show)
Jean Yarbrough Jean Yarbrough, Bowdoin’s Gary M. Pendy Professor of Social Sciences and author of Theodore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition (University Press of Kansas, 2014), talks about...
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Bowdoin’s Franz Discusses Changing Nature of Political Advertising in Latest...
Associate Professor of Government Michael Franz draws on a wealth of data in his latest book, Political Advertising in the United States (Westview Press, 2016), which he co-wrote with two other...
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Professor Henry Laurence Analyzes Significance of President Obama’s Japan Trip
Henry Laurence Associate Professor of Government and Asian studies Henry Laurence says concerns over the revival of Japanese nationalism are overplayed, and are unlikely to be a cause for international...
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