Five Women Scholars Promoted and Granted Tenure at Bowdoin College in Maine

Bowdoin College, the highly rated liberal arts educational institution in Brunswick, Maine, has announced that 11 faculty members have been promoted to associate professor and granted tenure. The promotions are effective on July 1. Five of the 11 promotions went to women.

Tracey McMullen was promoted to associate professor of music. She joined the faculty at the college in 2012. She teaches courses on the history of jazz and issues in Hip-Hop music. Dr. McMullen is a graduate of Stanford University. She holds two master’s degree from the University of North Texas and a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego.

Ingrid Nelson will be an associate professor in the department of sociology and anthropology. She joined the faculty at the university in 2010. Dr. Nelson is the author of Why Afterschool Matters (Rutgers University Press, 2017). A graduate of Wellesley College in Massachusetts, Dr. Nelson earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. at Stanford University.

Emily Peterman was appointed an associate professor of earth and oceanographic science. Her research focuses on the behavior of minerals within rocks. Dr. Peterman joined the faculty at Bowdoin in 2012. She is a graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont, where she majored in geology and Spanish. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Meghan Roberts was promoted to associate professor of history. Her research is focused on eighteenth-century France, gender history, and the history of science. Dr. Roberts is the author of Sentimental Savants: Philosophical Families in Enlightenment France (University of Chicago Press, 2016). A member of the Bowdoin faculty since 2011, Dr. Roberts is a graduate of the College of WIlliam and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in history from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Hilary Thompson was named an associate professor of English. She joined the faculty at Bowdoin in 2011. Dr. Thompson is the author of Novel Creatures: Animal Life and the New Millennium (Routledge, 2018). Dr. Thompson is a graduate of the University of Toronto. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in English language and literature from the University of Michigan.