Rate My Professor José Antonio Bowen

José Antonio Bowen began his academic career at Stanford University in 1982 as Director of Jazz Ensembles. He holds four degrees from Stanford University: a Bachelor of Science in chemistry, a Master of Arts in music composition, a Master of Arts in humanities, and a joint Ph.D. in musicology and humanities. Stanford honored him with a Centennial Award for Undergraduate Teaching in 1990 and as a Distinguished Alumni Scholar in 2010.

Bowen has held leadership positions including Founding Director of the Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music at the University of Southampton, the Caestecker Chair of Music at Georgetown University, Dean of Fine Arts at Miami University, Dean of the Meadows School of the Arts and Algur H. Meadows Chair at Southern Methodist University, and President of Goucher College from 2014 to 2019. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the American Association of Colleges and Universities and leads the Bowen Innovation Group. He has written over 100 scholarly articles and is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Conducting (2003) and an editor of Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology (2011). His books include Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning (2012), which received the Ness Award for Best Book on Higher Education; Teaching Naked Techniques (2017); Teaching Change: How to Develop Independent Thinkers Using Relationships, Resilience and Reflection (2021); and Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning (2024). He received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, the Ernest L. Boyer Award in 2018, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Bowen has presented keynotes and workshops at hundreds of campuses worldwide.