Educational Background

·     Leah Bowman is a born and raised Hoosier from a small rural community in east central Indiana.  She completed her undergraduate degree at Indiana University-Bloomington with a double major in history and art history as well as a minor in religious studies.  She focused her undergraduate studies on European history.  She wrote her senior seminar research paper on the concept of the neue Frau in relation to the sexual reform movements in the Weimar Republic.  At Southern Methodist University Leah will continue to focus on gender in the European context and continue research on the continually shifting roles of women in the early 20^th century, including the women’s suffrage movement, women’s roles in the home and family, and women in the workplace.

Last updated 09/12