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Bowdoin Economist Sheds New Light on Bestseller ‘The Undoing Project’ (Quartz)
Daniel Stone Assistant Professor of Economics Daniel Stone started Bowdoin’s first behavioral economics course in 2013. Now two giants of the behavior economics field, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky,...
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‘Local Knowledge is Key’: Former Government Professor on Helping Refugees in...
Shelley Deane Former Assistant Professor of Government Shelley Deane left academe with an expert knowledge of the Middle East to work in the hands-on world of conflict resolution and risk assessment....
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Joshua Chamberlain: ‘The Last Man to Die of Civil War Wounds’
President Joshua Chamberlain Civil War hero and Bowdoin College President Joshua Chamberlain, a member of the Class of 1852, died 103 years ago this week, on February 24, 1914, at at the age of...
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Ambassador Laurence Pope ’67 and Government Professor Barbara Elias Klenner...
Barbara Elias Klenner and Laurence Pope ’67 Assistant Professor of Government Barbara Elias Klenner and former Ambassador Laurence Pope ’67 discuss the proposed wall on the Mexican border, the recent...
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African American History in Maine and at Bowdoin (Portland Magazine)
The Stowe House, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. Portland Magazine recently sent a writer to the new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., to look into the...
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Writer, Feminist Susan Faludi Discusses New Book, ‘In the Darkroom’
Susan Faludi Pulitizer-Prize winning journalist Susan Faludi recently spoke on campus and read from her 2016 Kirkus Prize winning book, In the Darkroom. The book was named one of The New York Times’ 10...
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Bowdoin’s Rudalevige Part of Congressional Briefing on History of Executive...
Andrew Rudalevige at the National History Center’s Congressional briefing on the history of executive orders in Washington, D.C., February 17, 2017. Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin’s Thomas Brackett Reed...
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Bowdoin’s Chiang on Japanese-American Incarceration Camps
Connie Chiang Associate Professor of History and Environmental Studies Connie Chiang recently spoke at the Center for Multicultural life about the history of Japanese American incarceration in relation...
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Turning Back Refugees at US Border ‘Nothing New’ Says Bowdoin’s Wells (Salon)
Allen Wells The United States of America is well known for welcoming immigrants to her shores throughout history, said Allen Wells, Bowdoin’s Roger Howell Jr. Professor of History. But, in an article...
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Bowdoin’s Allen Wells Discusses Cuban-American Relations (Maine Public Radio)
Richard Blanco (left), Allen Wells Allen Wells, Bowdoin’s Roger Howell Jr. Professor of History, shared his insight on the current and future state of Cuban-American relations in the wake of Fidel...
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Bowdoin’s Franz: Clinton Campaign’s TV Ads Had Little To Do with Policy (Vox)
Hillary Clinton. Image: Wikimedia Commons The television ads run by Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign were much more focused on attacking opponent Donald Trump’s personality than his policies,...
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Robbed of Credit: Scanlon Insight on History’s Groundbreaking Women...
Jennifer Scanlon As part of Women’s History Month, The Huffington Post has compiled a list of “11 Women Who Did Groundbreaking Things That Men Got the Credit For.” Among this group is Anna Arnold...
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Bowdoin Professor Argues Current Foreign Policy Could Diminish US
Rebecca Davis Gibbons President Donald Trump’s foreign policy, as expressed so far through his actions and rhetoric, threatens to weaken the United States’ standing in the world, according to a Bowdoin...
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Bowdoin’s Rudalevige on Trump Desire to Reorganize Executive Branch: ‘Good...
Andrew Rudalevige President Trump’s recent executive order, “Comprehensive Plan for Reorganizing the Executive Branch,” may be a song we’ve heard before. Many times. As Bowdoin’s Thomas Brackett Reed...
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Campus-wide Media Project Targets Red/Blue News Divide
Poster for the Purple Media Plunge Whether it’s the sites we choose, the stories our friends post, or the news that algorithms use to populate our feed, more Americans are learning about current events...
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Bowdoin’s Rothschild on Moral Outrage (The Conversation)
Zachary Rothschild Assistant Professor of Psychology Zachary Rothschild explains “moral outrage,” a term social psychologists use to describe displays of anger against a third party for perceived harm...
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Christopher Hill ’74, H’14 on Rex Tillerson and Northeast Asia (Project...
Christopher Hill ’74, H’14 Career diplomat Christopher Hill ’74, H’14 discusses US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s recent trip to Northeast Asia. The visit provided an opportunity for the Trump...
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Network@1800: A Digital Humanities Perspective on European Cultural History
Crystal Hall (left), Birgit Tautz The sympomsium Network@1800: New Directions in German and European Cultural Studies brings together twenty-two scholars from across the US, Canada, and Germany to...
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Something to Tweet About: Bowdoin’s Kingston on How Two Bird Species are...
A collared towhee, one of the birds from Kingston’s study, on the cover of the Journal of Evolutional Biology (Jan. 9, 2017), in which her article appears. Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology Sarah...
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Bowdoin’s Faludi a Pulitzer Finalist for ‘In the Darkroom’ Autobiography...
Susan Faludi Susan Faludi, a research associate at Bowdoin and a former Tallman Scholar in Gender and Women’s Studies, came close to winning her second Pulitzer Prize. Faludi was a finalist in the...
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