David Lowe (historian)


David Michael Lowe is an Australian biographer and historian of modern international affairs, and of Australia's role therein, especially with reference to Asia and the Pacific. In 2015 he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.

Education

David Lowe completed undergraduate studies at Monash University in Australia, graduating with First Class Honours in 1987. Lowe was awarded his doctorate in 1991 from the University of Cambridge.

Academic career

Lowe is currently the Chair in Contemporary History at Deakin University in Victoria. He is the co-founder of the Australian Policy and History network, the Chair and founder of the Contemporary Histories Research Group and an elected board member of the Australian Historical Studies journal. Lowe has previously been a member of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Editorial Advisory Board. From 2009-2014, Lowe was the Director of the Alfred Deakin Research Institute.
Lowe has been awarded several Australian Research Council grants and other public sector funding grants for research projects.
He has published scholarly articles in journals including the Journal of Contemporary History, The International Journal of Cultural Policy, History Australia, The Australian Journal of Politics and History, The Journal of Australian Studies , Biography: An Interdisciplinary Journal, The Australian Journal of International Affairs, South Asia and The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. Lowe also writes selected articles for The Conversation.
In 2016, Lowe was interviewed for the television series 'Howard on Menzies'.

Selected works

Books