Sarah McMahon

Associate Professor of History, Chair of History Department

Fall 2009

  • Family and Community in American History, 1600–1900 (GWS 248)
  • Community in America, 1600-1900 (HIST 332)
Phone (207) 725-3241
Title Associate Professor
Department HISTORY
Work Location 11 Hubbard Hall
E-Mail smcmahon@bowdoin.edu
Sarah F. McMahon

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Course Syllabi, Reading Guides, and Resources


Education:

  A.B. Wellesley College
  Ph.D. Brandeis University

Academic Spotlight

  Teaching Oral Communication:
  History 12, Utopia: Intentional Communities
  in America, 1630-1977

  Consultants for Teaching:
  Faculty Members Develop Program of Teaching Support

History 247 Service Learning Project

  Maine Matters:  Exploring Local, Mid-Coast, and Maine History

Alumni College 2002

  The Home Front:
   Bowdoin and Brunswick Before the War


Sarah McMahon teaches survey courses on colonial and early national US social history, as well as thematic courses—both surveys and seminars—on family and community, women, utopia, and Maine environmental history.  Her articles on the history of diet and the culture of food in New England and the Midwest have been published in Historical Methods, William and Mary Quarterly, Agricultural History, and in essay collections on early American technology and Midwestern women.  Her current research focuses on coastal (and island) ecology, economy, and culture in Maine from the eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries.


Postcards:

Hubbard Hall

  Hubbard Library—Bowdoin College, Brunswick. Me.  (c. 1907)

Bowdoin 1907

  Bowdoin College  (1907)