Environmental Studies

Environmental Studies at Bowdoin equips students with knowledge, skills, and perspectives to understand the causes and consequences of local and global environmental problems, with the goal of developing just, equitable solutions. Our curriculum emphasizes thinking across and beyond disciplines and embracing interdisciplinary inquiry in the humanities, arts, social sciences, and natural sciences.

Faculty Excellence in Action: Celebrating a Semester of Scholarship and Creativity
From national and international recognitions and important books and papers to explorations and performances that benefitted the Maine community and beyond in myriad ways, Bowdoin faculty enriched campus life this spring through a wide array of scholarly and artistic pursuits that extended well beyond the classroom.
Adepoju Arogundade ’25 Heads to Germany on Governmental Fellowship to Study Transportation Issues
Adepoju Arogundade ’25 has secured a fellowship to live, work, and study for a year in Germany after graduation. He will explore the issue of sustainable transport in the country as part of a program run jointly by the US Congress and Germany’s Bundestag.
Lena Souffrant ’25 Brings New Ideas to Life in “Dead Bird Stories”
The show by the environmental studies and Africana studies major “challenges the entangled histories of science, colonialism, and ecological ‘discovery’ at Bowdoin College.”