 He was a Research Fellow at Elizabethtown College's Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies and directed the Brethren Member Profile 2006, the second nationally representative survey of Brethren in the United States.Bowman was Chair of the Department of Sociology at Bridgewater College in Bridgewater, Virginia from 1988 until 2007.He has served as Director of Survey Research for the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture since 1995.