Rate My Professor Sharon Bowman

Dr. Bowman’s research focuses on diversity issues including race, ethnicity, gender, women’s issues, and LGB concerns among college students; career counseling and development; supervision and mentoring; and disaster and trauma psychology, serving as a disaster mental health counselor with the American Red Cross. Key publications include the co-edited book Overworked and Undervalued: Black Women and Success in America (2022, Lexington Books); Walsh, Blom, Bolin, and Bowman’s 'Factors Relating to College Football Players’ Conformity to Traditional Masculine Norms' (2021, The Journal of Men’s Studies); Ausmus, Blom, Bowman, and Lebeau’s article on social media and disordered eating in gymnasts (2021, Science of Gymnastics Journal); and her own 'Conversations and Collaborations: What Has Really Changed?' (2015, The Counseling Psychologist). She has received numerous honors, including President of the Society of Counseling Psychology (Division 17, APA) in 2014, Fellow of APA Divisions 17 and 45, Indiana Psychological Association Outstanding Mentoring Award (2025), Ball State Outstanding Administrator Award (2018), and Ball State Award for Outstanding Junior Faculty (1994). Dr. Bowman has held leadership roles such as President of the American Board of Professional Psychology (2026 term), Chair of APA’s Commission on Recognition of Specialties (2024), Past President of the American Board of Counseling Psychology (2019), and member of the Indiana State Psychology Board.