Through new books, papers published in journals, media appearances, and more, Bowdoin faculty members complemented their time in the classroom during the fall semester with a variety of scholarly and artistic contributions.
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Two faculty members have been promoted from the rank of associate to full professor based on their excellence in teaching, distinction in scholarly or artistic engagement, and service to the College.
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Five faculty members collaborate on an exhibition currently showing at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Without Apology explores how Asian American identity has expressed itself through the last eight decades or so.
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In his latest book, sociology professor Oyman Basaran looks at the practice of circumcision in modern Turkey and explores how a traditional socioreligious ritual was increasingly coopted by the medical establishment.
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A group of Bowdoin professors will be offering a diverse slate of courses and programming this year focused on Asian American history, perspectives, and expressions.
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Bowdoin has appointed a cohort of four accomplished scholars to new endowed faculty professorships honoring distinguished Black graduates of the College. These new positions, which are fully funded by donors, will focus on the interdisciplinary study of race, racism, and racial justice and across themes of environmental justice and belonging, citizenship, and freedom.
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The 2020 Karofsky Prize winner, who specializes in the intersections of gender, sexuality, urbanism, and culture, wins the Sociology of Sexualities Early Career Award, issued by the American Sociological Association (ASA).
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Three Bowdoin graduates, all distinguished journalists, spoke to students recently, discussing their varied career paths and offering professional advice to anyone thinking of going in that direction.
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The Bowdoin College Board of Trustees granted tenure to four faculty members during meetings held off campus February 9–11, 2023.
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Karla Lainez ’24 included a variety of voices and stories that matter to her personally when putting together the latest student-curated book display celebrating BIPOC themes and texts.
Read moreSociology allows students to develop a “vivid awareness of the relationship between personal experience and the wider society" (C. Wright Mills), a sociological imagination.
Through examination of topics such as socio-economic class, race and ethnicity, family, gender, health and medicine, sexuality, education, media, immigration—in the US and across the world— students come to an appreciation of how the lives of individuals are deeply connected to larger social structures and histories.
Sociology Department
Statement on Racism and Violence against Asians, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders: Racism and xenophobia directed at Asians, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders have long histories in US society; those attacks have become more common, visible and recognized this past year. Continue to full statement.
Statement on Black Lives Matter: We, as faculty and staff of the Sociology Department at Bowdoin College, condemn the white supremacy, institutionalized racism, and state-sanctioned violence responsible for the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Dion Johnson, Tony McDade, Rayshard Brooks, and countless other Black people. Continue to full statement and letter.