Nicole Bowman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4411638 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicole Bowman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicole |
| FAMILY NAME | Bowman |
| SIGNATURE | BOWMAN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8509-7742 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Positionality as Situated Identity: Knowing Self, Knowing Where We Stand
Positionality as Praxis: Embodiment, Imagination, and Liberation in Evaluation
This second issue in the four-part series on positionality in evaluation advances understanding of positionality as embodied practice, theoretical intervention, and liberatory praxis. Building on dialogic and relational foundations, the articles ground how evaluators’ identities, bodies, histories, and contexts of practice shape evaluation design, relationships, and use. Centering Blackness and drawing on Black feminist, Afrofuturist, and Pan-Afr…
Positionality as Dialog
The concept of positionality, or how one is situated across multiple loci of privilege and disadvantage, can be a powerful tool for evaluation. In this first curated section of positionality articles, we hear from three pairs of evaluators who engage in dialogues around their shared and divergent identities. Since we drafted our initial section notes in February 2025, much has changed in the world of research and evaluation, with ongoing attacks …
Introduction to the Roots and Relations Section
Introduction à la section Nos racines et nos liens
The Oral History of Evaluation: Joan LaFrance, Indigenous Evaluation, and Attention to Culture in Evaluation
From the Ethics, Values, and Culture Section Editors: Positionality, Kinship, and Intentional Scholarship
Introduction à la section Nos racines et nos liens
Continuing the Evaluation Journey: Sharing the Lunaape Seven Directions Medicine Wheel (7DMWTM) Model
As part of decades of Indigenous evaluation scholarship in the global North and South this article highlights how decolonized, culturally responsive, and Indigenous evaluation frameworks, theories, and methods can be developed and refined over time. Using a Lunaape Medicine Wheel framework, the author builds on the four directions and extends it to a Seven Directions Lunaape Medicine Wheel (7DMWTM) model using traditional teachings and language, …
Introduction to the Roots and Relations Section
Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Applying It By, With, For, and Through Indigenous Evaluators and Evaluations
Indigenous data sovereignty (IDS) is a relatively recent term and global movement that originated from the Global Indigenous Data Alliance (GIDA) in 2015 when the formal international network was created. The global North and South have representation in the GIDA through the nation-states including the Maiam nayri Wingara Collective (Australia), Te Mana Raraunga Maori Data Sovereignty Network (Aotearoa New Zealand), and the United States Indigeno…
Integrating Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge of land into land management through Indigenous-academic partnerships
Praxis Makes Perfect? Transcending Textbooks to Learning Evaluation Experientially and in Cultural Contexts
The theory-to-practice loop is riddled with gaps, incongruencies, and, at times, trauma when it comes to the professional development and practice of evaluators. Our current system of professional development for evaluators systemically and institutionally reinforces racism, white privilege, and misogyny, thus re-creating harm and the barriers that so many BIPOC and LGBTQ2S evaluators are working hard to overcome. This article provides the reader…
Nos racines et nos liens: Célébrons l’évaluation autochtone
Roots and Relations: Celebrating Good Medicine in Indigenous Evaluation
Wuliit Wchapikal (wool-leet which-ah-pee-kul): Good Medicine!Th at is what the new "Roots and Relations" (R&R) permanent section in CJPE intends to be.Th e purpose of the R&R journey is to honour our lineage, grow our kinship, and sustain our intergenerational legacies of Indigenous wisdom and practices in evaluation.R&R will sacredly hold and protect traditional knowledge, respect and assert sovereignty, provide a nurturing space for Indigenous …
EvalIndigenous Origin Story: Effective Practices within Local Contexts to Inform the Field and Practice of Evaluation
EvalIndigenous began in November 2015 as a global network of EvalPartners. This origin story of EvalIndigenous is shared to describe some of the work being carried out today by Indigenous evaluators in the Global North and South. EvalIndigenous is rooted in tribal critical and Indigenous theories and methods, as well as the legal and political distinctions of Indigenous peoples and Tribal/First Nations. EvalIndigenous shares how evaluation is don…
Nation-to-Nation Evaluation: Governance, Tribal Sovereignty, and Systems Thinking through Culturally Responsive Indigenous Evaluations
This paper was presented as part of the opening plenary panel at the 2018 Canadian Evaluation Conference in Calgary, Alberta, on May 27, 2018. Through telling the origin stories of First Nations/Indigenous people and Western evaluation colleagues, we can begin to understand the history and practical applications for advancing the truth through evaluation. The Doctrine of Discovery is rarely told as part of the Western canon of history or contempo…
Cultural Differences of Teaching and Learning: A Native American Perspective of Participating in Educational Systems and Organizations
I am a researcher and graduate student of American Indian descent (Stockbridge-Munsee/Mohican). I have always been very aware of the absence of other American Indian students in postsecondary education programs; have noticed the shortage of American Indians employed as educators, professors, or administrators; and am acutely aware of the number of American Indian populations excluded from qualitative or quantitative data sets as part of mainstrea…
Cultural Differences of Teaching and Learning: A Native American Perspective of Participating in Educational Systems and Organizations
I am a researcher and graduate student of American Indian descent (Stockbridge-Munsee/Mohican). I have always been very aware of the absence of other American Indian students in postsecondary education programs; have noticed the shortage of American Indians employed as educators, professors, or administrators; and am acutely aware of the number of American Indian populations excluded from qualitative or quantitative data sets as part of mainstrea…
From the Ethics, Values, and Culture Section Editors: Positionality, Kinship, and Intentional Scholarship
Positionality as Praxis: Embodiment, Imagination, and Liberation in Evaluation
This second issue in the four-part series on positionality in evaluation advances understanding of positionality as embodied practice, theoretical intervention, and liberatory praxis. Building on dialogic and relational foundations, the articles ground how evaluators’ identities, bodies, histories, and contexts of practice shape evaluation design, relationships, and use. Centering Blackness and drawing on Black feminist, Afrofuturist, and Pan-Afr…
Integrating Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge of land into land management through Indigenous-academic partnerships
Cultural Differences of Teaching and Learning: A Native American Perspective of Participating in Educational Systems and Organizations
I am a researcher and graduate student of American Indian descent (Stockbridge-Munsee/Mohican). I have always been very aware of the absence of other American Indian students in postsecondary education programs; have noticed the shortage of American Indians employed as educators, professors, or administrators; and am acutely aware of the number of American Indian populations excluded from qualitative or quantitative data sets as part of mainstrea…
Nation-to-Nation Evaluation: Governance, Tribal Sovereignty, and Systems Thinking through Culturally Responsive Indigenous Evaluations
This paper was presented as part of the opening plenary panel at the 2018 Canadian Evaluation Conference in Calgary, Alberta, on May 27, 2018. Through telling the origin stories of First Nations/Indigenous people and Western evaluation colleagues, we can begin to understand the history and practical applications for advancing the truth through evaluation. The Doctrine of Discovery is rarely told as part of the Western canon of history or contempo…
EvalIndigenous Origin Story: Effective Practices within Local Contexts to Inform the Field and Practice of Evaluation
EvalIndigenous began in November 2015 as a global network of EvalPartners. This origin story of EvalIndigenous is shared to describe some of the work being carried out today by Indigenous evaluators in the Global North and South. EvalIndigenous is rooted in tribal critical and Indigenous theories and methods, as well as the legal and political distinctions of Indigenous peoples and Tribal/First Nations. EvalIndigenous shares how evaluation is don…
Praxis Makes Perfect? Transcending Textbooks to Learning Evaluation Experientially and in Cultural Contexts
The theory-to-practice loop is riddled with gaps, incongruencies, and, at times, trauma when it comes to the professional development and practice of evaluators. Our current system of professional development for evaluators systemically and institutionally reinforces racism, white privilege, and misogyny, thus re-creating harm and the barriers that so many BIPOC and LGBTQ2S evaluators are working hard to overcome. This article provides the reader…
Nos racines et nos liens: Célébrons l’évaluation autochtone
Roots and Relations: Celebrating Good Medicine in Indigenous Evaluation
Wuliit Wchapikal (wool-leet which-ah-pee-kul): Good Medicine!Th at is what the new "Roots and Relations" (R&R) permanent section in CJPE intends to be.Th e purpose of the R&R journey is to honour our lineage, grow our kinship, and sustain our intergenerational legacies of Indigenous wisdom and practices in evaluation.R&R will sacredly hold and protect traditional knowledge, respect and assert sovereignty, provide a nurturing space for Indigenous …
Integrating Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge of land into land management through Indigenous-academic partnerships
Introduction à la section Nos racines et nos liens
Continuing the Evaluation Journey: Sharing the Lunaape Seven Directions Medicine Wheel (7DMWTM) Model
As part of decades of Indigenous evaluation scholarship in the global North and South this article highlights how decolonized, culturally responsive, and Indigenous evaluation frameworks, theories, and methods can be developed and refined over time. Using a Lunaape Medicine Wheel framework, the author builds on the four directions and extends it to a Seven Directions Lunaape Medicine Wheel (7DMWTM) model using traditional teachings and language, …
Introduction to the Roots and Relations Section
Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Applying It By, With, For, and Through Indigenous Evaluators and Evaluations
Indigenous data sovereignty (IDS) is a relatively recent term and global movement that originated from the Global Indigenous Data Alliance (GIDA) in 2015 when the formal international network was created. The global North and South have representation in the GIDA through the nation-states including the Maiam nayri Wingara Collective (Australia), Te Mana Raraunga Maori Data Sovereignty Network (Aotearoa New Zealand), and the United States Indigeno…
Positionality as Dialog
The concept of positionality, or how one is situated across multiple loci of privilege and disadvantage, can be a powerful tool for evaluation. In this first curated section of positionality articles, we hear from three pairs of evaluators who engage in dialogues around their shared and divergent identities. Since we drafted our initial section notes in February 2025, much has changed in the world of research and evaluation, with ongoing attacks …
Introduction to the Roots and Relations Section
Introduction à la section Nos racines et nos liens
The Oral History of Evaluation: Joan LaFrance, Indigenous Evaluation, and Attention to Culture in Evaluation
From the Ethics, Values, and Culture Section Editors: Positionality, Kinship, and Intentional Scholarship
Positionality as Situated Identity: Knowing Self, Knowing Where We Stand
Positionality as Praxis: Embodiment, Imagination, and Liberation in Evaluation
This second issue in the four-part series on positionality in evaluation advances understanding of positionality as embodied practice, theoretical intervention, and liberatory praxis. Building on dialogic and relational foundations, the articles ground how evaluators’ identities, bodies, histories, and contexts of practice shape evaluation design, relationships, and use. Centering Blackness and drawing on Black feminist, Afrofuturist, and Pan-Afr…
Evaluation and Performance Assessment (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Indigenous (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Section (typography (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)