As they consider classes to take next semester, students were urged to test themselves by taking a difficult course in an unfamiliar field. The advice came from Italian medievalist and Dante scholar Alejandro Cuadrado, keynote faculty speaker at this year’s Sarah and James Bowdoin Day ceremony, honoring students’ outstanding academic achievement.
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From prestigious awards and major research grants to acclaimed performances, exhibitions, publications, and public scholarship, Bowdoin faculty members contributed to their fields in significant and creative ways throughout the spring semester.
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Digital humanities scholar Crystal Hall and two of her students address a literary conference in Florence, Italy, thanks to funding from the Office of Student Fellowships and the Digital and Computational Studies Program. The subject in the spotlight: women’s rights at the turn of the twentieth century.
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From cinema studies to German, from biology to Russian, Bowdoin faculty from across the academic spectrum were rewarded for their excellence in research and teaching during the fall semester with funding awards from external sources.
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After conducting research in Italy and analyzing her results at Bowdoin, the senior published her article in Land Use Policy, an influential peer-reviewed journal. In it, she makes the case that cities should rethink how they manage green spaces to benefit urban dwellers.
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What better way to bring Italian speakers together during COVID-19 than food?
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The Romance languages and literatures scholar teams up with a colleague at York University in Toronto to spearhead an exciting new literary initiative: a multidisciplinary book series exploring the ‘proximities’ of things.
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A mammoth film studies project launched by Professor Allison Cooper to establish an online research tool enjoys a surge in growth, due in part to the demands of remote learning and teaching imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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This year, three Bowdoin students have received Watson grants to travel the world and pursue a subject that fascinates them.
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Everyone knows that computers didn’t come along until the second half of the last century, right? Well, maybe not, says professor Arielle Saiber. There were computers in Renaissance Italy, she informs us, but these computers were people!
Read moreWelcome to Bowdoin’s Italian Program! What do past and present students have to say about studying Italian at Bowdoin? Play this Italian Studies at Bowdoin video to find out.