News and Events
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Following Maps to Study History and Become Stronger Students
On their first of five visits to Special Collections & Archives this semester, first-year students in the seminar Maps, Territory, and Power in Asia leaned over large tables to peer at unrolled maps of the Bowdoin campus. Some of the sheets had tattered edges, or deep creases from fold lines. Many were drawn by hand in ink. -
Bowdoin’s Brennan and Perkinson on the Humanities, Practical Application of Invaluable Tools in “Inside Higher Ed”
The value and benefits of a liberal arts education steeped in the humanities has worthy champions in Kristin Brennan, executive director of Bowdoin’s Office of Career Exploration and Development (CXD), and Stephen Perkinson, professor of art history. -
“Holy Sobriety.” Surviving Persecution in Early Twentieth Century Russia
Russia scholar Page Herrlinger discusses her new book, which explores the life and legacy of “Brother Ioann” Churikov— a charismatic early twentieth-century spiritual leader whose followers were targeted by the Russian Orthodox Church and, later, the Soviet state. -
Faculty Awards Boost Research and Teaching of the Environment from Different Perspectives
Five scholars from the humanities, the social sciences, and STEM subjects have been awarded prestigious federal grants in recent months to help them pursue a range of projects and activities, all related in different ways to environmental issues. -
New Book Explores Significance of Skin Marking in Early Modern Era
Francophone studies scholar Katherine Dauge-Roth coedits a collection of essays examining this relatively new area of academic study. Whether it’s through tattooing, branding, beauty marks, or scarring, by the eighteenth century, skin markings had become an important mark of identity, she says. -
Bowdoin Scholars Weigh In on Blockbuster Movie Releases Oppenheimer and Barbie
Writing in a news opinion piece, historian David Hecht says the movie Oppenheimer, though a good film, neglects to tell the full story of the Manhattan Project. Meanwhile, talking on a radio phone-in show, film scholar Allison Cooper admits she feels conflicted over Barbie.