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Megan Perle Bowman

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19th Century U.S. History


Graduate Student
B.A., University of Colorado Boulder; M.A., U.C.S.B.

Office: HSSB
Hours:

Advisor: Patricia Cohen

How did the radical and sometimes bizarre ideas of the French socialist Charles Fourier become such a widespread phenomenon in the mid-nineteenth century? My dissertation answers this question by exploring the vibrant social network that linked the Fourierists in the U.S. with their counterparts in France, the United Kingdom, and Algeria.

Dissertation Title

  • Networking for Global Perfection: The International Dimension of Nineteenth-Century Fourierism

Teaching Fields

  • U.S. History: Colonial- Present
  • U.S. Women's History
  • World History
  • Islam & Gender

Courses Taught

  • Women in American History (1800-1900)
    U.C.S.B., Session A: Summer 2010
  • The American Civil War
    Dominican University, Spring 2005

Teaching Assistantships

  • 4C: Western Civilization
    Spring 2009
  • 17B: Contested Visions of American Liberty, 1840-1920
    Winter 2009
  • 17B Honors
    Winter 2009
  • 17A: The American People (Colonial through Jacksonian Era)
    Fall 2008
  • 17A: Honors
    Fall 2008
  • 2C: World History
    Spring 2008
  • 2B: World History
    Winter 2008
  • 17A: The American People (Colonial through Jacksonian Era)
    Fall 2007, Fall 2006
  • 17A: Honors
    Fall 2007
  • 17B: Contested Visions of American Liberty, 1840-1920
    Winter 2007
  • 17C: The American People Since World War I
    Spring 2007

Awards

  • Graduate Division Advancement Fellowship
    Spring 2011
  • History Department Writing Fellowship
    Winter 2011; Winter 2010
  • UCSB Writing Fellowship
    Fall 2010
  • Schlesinger Library, Harvard University
    Short-Term Research Fellowship, Summer 2009
  • Humanities & Social Sciences Research Grant, UCSB
    May 2009