She is currently the director of Integrated Studies, a freshman-year intensive liberal arts course for the Benjamin Franklin Scholars at the University of Pennsylvania.[2]
Research
In recent years, a significant shift in both focus and practice transpired in Bowes’ research. While she is continuously focused on the archaeology and material culture of the Roman and later Roman worlds, her research interests have shifted from late antiquity and the archeologies of religion and elite space to historical economies with a distinct focus on poverty and the lived experience of the poor.[1] Her forthcoming study on Roman peasants in Italy reflects a greater attention to non-elites in the studies of Roman archaeology and economic history and a shift in her methodology, integrating archaeological and scientific data, anthropological theory and historical economics become.[1]
From 2009-2015, Bowes co-directed the Roman Peasant Project in Italy with colleagues.[5][6] The Project was the first systematic study of the lifestyles and experiences of Roman peasants in Italy, and was supported by the
National Science Foundation, the Loeb Foundation and the
Penn Museum.[7] The final two-volume publication, The Roman Peasant Project 2009-2015: Excavating the Roman Rural Poor, was published by the Penn Museum and University of Pennsylvania Press in February 2021.[4]
Private Worship, Public Values and Religious Change in Late Antiquity (2011)[9]ISBN978-0-521-88593-5
Edited volumes
National Narratives and the Medieval Mediterranean. (special issue of Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, edited with W. Tronzo, 2018)
Between Text and Territory: Survey and Excavation in the terra of San Vincenzo al Volturno (edited with R. Hodges and K. Francis, 2007)[10]ISBN978-0-904152-48-7
Hispania in Late Antiquity: Current Perspectives (edited and translated with M. Kulikowski, 2005)[11]
^Bowes, Kim (2010). House and Society in the Later Roman Empire. Duckworth Debates in Archaeology. London: Duckworth.
ISBN978-0-7156-3882-8.
OCLC503079562. Reviews: Jean-Robert Gisler (2012), Museum Helveticum,
JSTOR44081070; André Pelletier (2013), Latomus,
JSTOR23800254
^Bowes, Kim; Francis, Karen; Hodges, Richard, eds. (2006). Between Text and Territory: Survey and Excavation in the terra of San Vincenzo al Volturno. London: British School at Rome.
ISBN978-0-904152-48-7.
OCLC122953882. Review: Marios Costambeys (2008), Early Medieval Europe,
doi:
10.1111/j.1468-0254.2008.240_1.x
^Bowes, Kim; Kulikowski, Michael, eds. (2005). Hispania in Late Antiquity: Current Perspectives. The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World. Vol. 24. Brill.. Reviews: Thomas S. Burns (2006), Amer. Hist. Rev.,
doi:
10.1086/ahr.111.4.1238,
JSTOR10.1086/ahr.111.4.1238; Sabine Panzram (2007), J. Roman Archaeol.,
doi:
10.1017/S1047759400006164