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Bowman was a known anti-Semite: extremely suspect of Jews and reluctant to hire them at the university. According to Neil Smith, Bowman fired one of the most promising young historians on the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1939, saying "there are already too many Jews at Hopkins." In ''American Empire'', Bowman is further quoted as saying "Jews don't come to Hopkins to make the world better or anything like that. They come for two things: to make money and to marry a non- Jewish woman." In 1942, Bowman instituted a quota on the admission of Jewish students.<ref name="Smith 2003 246–247"/>
 
Archival research of private letters reveals Bowman intensely disliked the only tenured geography professor at Harvard, [[Derwent S. Whittlesey]], for his scholarship and homosexuality.<ref>Smith, N. 1987. "Academic War over the Field of Geography": The Elimination of Geography at Harvard, 1947-1951. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 77, 2, pp. 155-172</ref>
 
==Bowman Expeditions==