Bowdoin College, the highly selective liberal arts educational institution in Brunswick, Maine, has announced the promotion of three women to full professor.
Jackie Brown, who joined the college’s faculty in 2014, was promoted to professor of art. She explores the shifting processes of growth and transformation that connect human life with the living systems around us. Working primarily in clay, she uses 3D printing and mold-making as starting points for experimental forms that invite reflection on how we perceive and relate to the natural world. Professsor Brown is a graduate of Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. She earned a master of fine arts degree from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Crystal Hall was appointed professor of digital humanities. Her research and teaching interests include digital humanities research and pedagogy, early modern Italian literature, science and literature, Renaissance Florence, and second language acquisition. Professor Hall is the author of Galileo’s Library: Data, Methods, and the Humanities (forthcoming with Oxford University Press). Dr. Hall is a graduate of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Sh earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Emily Peterman was promoted to professor of Earth and oceanographic science. She joined the college’s faculty in 2012. She uses petrology, mineralogy, geochronology, and geochemistry to quantify the timing and rates of metamorphic recrystallization, deformation, melting, and other processes that affect how Earth’s crust has evolved in time and space. Dr. Peterman 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.