Director, MU Honors College

Passionate about making sure that honors students at MU succeed in their academic and co-curricular pursuits, Bowers has fourteen years of experience in Honors teaching and administration, and three decades of professional experience in higher and secondary education. In addition to his role as director of MU’s Honors College, Bowers is a faculty affiliate in the Black Studies Department and also in the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy. He maintains an active scholarly career, leading study abroad programs, teaching courses, and conducting research. Over the past eight years he has led a program of study, in partnership with The Hague University of Applied Sciences (Den Haag, Nederland), in examining the dimensions of post-genocide justice and conflict resolution. He has also led programs that have focused on the long-term consequences of mass atrocity to the divided island of Cyprus, and in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He remains globally active in the pursuit of post-genocide justice, including as an invited member of the International Criminal Court Scholars Forum. He is currently working on two book manuscripts, one on the unresolved Cyprus conflict and another on the genocide in Bosnia.