Bowdoin College Promotes Four Women to Full Professor

Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, has announced that seven faculty members have been promoted to the rank of full professor. Four of the seven promotions went to women.

Aviva Briefel was named a full professor of English and film studies. She joined the Bowdoin College faculty in 2000. She is the director of the film studies program at the college. Professor Briefel is the author of the book The Deceivers: Art Forgery and Identity in the Nineteenth Century (Cornell University Press, 2006) and co-editor of Horror After 9/11: World of Fear, Cinema of Terror (University of Texas Press, 2011). Professor Briefel holds a Ph.D. in English and American literature and language from Harvard University.

Kristen Ghodsee was promoted to professor of women’s and gender studies and holds the John S. Osterweis Professorship. She is also the director of the women’s and gender studies program. Dr. Ghodsee has been on the Bowdoin faculty since 2002. She is the author of several books including The Red Riviera: Gender, Tourism and Postsocialism on the Black Sea (Duke University Press, 2005) and Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe: Gender, Ethnicity and the Transformation of Islam in Postsocialist Bulgaria (Princeton University Press, 2010). Professor Ghodsee is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz. She earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley.

Shu-chin Tsui was appointed professor of Asian studies and professor of film studies. She joined the Bowdoin College faculty in 2002 after teaching at Oberlin College in Ohio and Southern Methodist University in Dallas. She is the author of Women Through the Lens: Gender and Nation in a Century of Chinese Cinema (University of Hawaii Press, 2008). Professor Tsui is a graduate of Xi’an University of Foreign Language Studies in China. She holds a master’s degree in Chinese literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a master’s degree in American culture and a Ph.D. in cinema and culture studies from the University of Michigan.

Tricia Welsch was promoted to professor of film studies. She joined the faculty at Bowdoin College in 1993 and was named a Marvin H. Jr. Green Fund associate professor in 2000. Earlier in her career, she taught at the University of Oklahoma. Professor Welsch is the author of Gloria Swanson: Ready for Her Close-Up (University Press of Mississippi, 2013). Professor Welsch is a graduate of Fordham University in The Bronx, New York. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.