Lisa Lowe

Lisa Lowe is Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies Yale University, and an affiliate faculty in the programs in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Prior to Yale, she taught at the University of California, San Diego, and Tufts University. She began as a scholar of French and comparative literature, and since then her work has focused on the cultural politics of colonialism, immigration, and globalization. She is known especially for scholarship on French, British, and United States colonialisms, Asian migration and Asian American studies, race and liberalism, and comparative empires. Academic biography Lowe studied European intellectual history at Stanford University, and French literature and critical theory at University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Mellon Foundations, the UC Humanities Research Institute, and the American Council of Learned Societies. In 2011–12, she was a University of California President's Faculty Research Fellow, and the Visiting Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. In the Fall 2012, she was the F. Ross Johnson-Connaught Distinguished Visitor at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. In 2016-2017, she co-convened a Mellon Sawyer Seminar at Tufts, "Comparative Global Humanities." In 2018, the American Studies Association awarded her the Carl Bode - Norman Holmes Pearson Award for lifetime contributions to the field, and the Richard A. Yarborough Prize for outstanding mentoring of underrepresented scholars. In 2022-2023, she is the Affiliate Scholar at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Work