Barbara Bowe papers

Barbara Bowe was born in Schenectady, New York, in 1945. She joined the Religious of the Sacred Heart in 1967 at the Kenwood novitiate in Albany, and made her final profession there in 1975. Sister Bowe received her B.A. in American history from Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York; she then earned a Masters degree in Religious Education from Boston College and a Masters degree in Theological Studies and Th.D. in New Testament and Christian Origins from Harvard University Divinity School. She was a professor at Catholic Theological Union for twenty years, and she served as director of the Masters of Divinity program, as director of the Biblical Spirituality Certificate program, and as assistant, associate, and full professor of Biblical Studies. She died March 14, 2010 in California.