Connie Y. Chiang

Affiliation: Academic Affairs
Environmental Studies and Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Inclusion; Rusack Professor of History

Primary Responsibilities

  • Mentoring and professional/leadership development for all faculty and chairs/directors
  • Faculty development workshops geared toward specific career stages and tracks
  • New Faculty Orientation and Incoming Chair/Director Orientation
  • Plays a non-evaluative role to support all faculty: available for confidential conversations
  • Faculty Development Committee (FDC) and Committee on Teaching and Classroom Practice (ex-officio)
  • Faculty Seminar Series
  • Faculty Writing Sessions
  • Liaison to Baldwin Center for Learning and Teaching (BCLT), Council of Mentors (CoM), Office of Inclusion and Diversity (OID), Communications, McKeen Center for the Common Good, Self-Identified Faculty of Color and International Faculty (SIFoC_IF), NCFDD, Colby, Bates and Bowdoin (CBB) faculty development initiatives,
  • Bowdoin Student Government


Hometown


Walnut Creek, California

Background

I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and completed my undergraduate degree at the University of California, Santa Barbara and my graduate work at the University of Washington in Seattle. After over two decades on the West Coast, I moved to Maine to teach history and environmental studies at Bowdoin. Outside of work, I enjoy running on Brunswick’s back roads (even in the winter), tending to my flower garden in the summer, and knitting year-round.

Office Hours: M 10 AM-12 PM; R 3:30-5 PM

Connie Chiang Headshot

Education

  • PhD, History, University of Washington, 2002
  • MA, History, University of Washington, 1997
  • BA, History & Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1996