Rate My Professor Hayley Bowman

Bowman earned her B.A. in History and Sociology and M.A. in History from Purdue University. Her master's thesis, titled “A Church Divided: The Dominicans, Franciscans, and the Eucharistic Debates in Early Modern Spain,” received the Best Thesis Award from Purdue's College of Liberal Arts in 2015. She completed her Ph.D. in History at the University of Michigan, where her dissertation, “Ineffable Knowing: Sor Maria de Jesus de Agreda in the Early Modern Spanish World,” built on these themes. During her doctoral studies, she held a Rackham Merit Fellowship and was awarded the Greenleaf Visiting Library Scholar grant from the University of New Mexico’s Latin American & Iberian Institute in 2019 to support dissertation research. At Fairmont State University, Bowman contributes to faculty governance as a member of senate committees, including those representing Social Sciences and the Library Committee, and advises the Pi Gamma Mu Honor Society chapter, an international organization for the social sciences. She has delivered campus presentations on LGBT+ history in the pre-modern world and historical perceptions of witchcraft in Europe and America.