As a graduate teaching fellow at Harvard, she taught classical Hebrew and Ancient Near Eastern history and archaeology. In addition to teaching at Gordon-Conwell, she currently serves part-time as a professor of Hebrew and Old Testament at Séminaire Théologique Mondelus in Milot, Haiti.
Dr. McDowell has also been active in church ministry, teaching adult education courses in Old Testament, theology, and Bible study methodology for Park Street Church in Boston and at several Presbyterian churches in North Carolina.
She has also worked for Vision New England, both as a conference speaker and as a consultant for leadership training curriculum development. For a number of years, she worked in the field at archaeological digs in Israel.
She is the author of The Image of God in the Garden of Eden: The Creation of Humankind in Gen 2:5-3:24 in Light of the mis pi/pit pi and wpt-r Rituals of Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt (Eisenbrauns), the study notes for 1-2 Samuel, 1-2 Kings, and 1-2 Chronicles in the ESV Archaeological Study Bible (Crossway, winner of the ECPA Book of the Year Award for Bibles in 2019), as well as several articles in publications such as the Basics of Biblical Hebrew Grammar textbook, the NIV Archaeological Study Bible, the Baker Illustrated Bible Background Commentary, and the Bulletin of the American School of Oriental Research. Her latest book, co-authored with Philip Towner, The Rewards of Learning Greek and Hebrew: Discovering the Richness of the Bible in Its Original Languages (Hendrickson), was published in 2021. She is currently working on a book on idolatry for the Essential Studies in Biblical Theology series published by IVP.
Dr. McDowell has earned a number of honors and awards for her work, including a full tuition scholarship at Harvard University and a $36,000 grant from the Pew Charitable Trust for her PhD studies, a Certificate of Distinction in Teaching undergraduates at Harvard College from the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, and the Faculty Development Grant from Wheaton College.
