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ProfessorDavid Lowe

Deakin Distinguished Professor and Chair in Contemporary History

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation

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  • Deakin Distinguished Professor and Chair in Contemporary History
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
  • +61 3 522 72691 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

BIO

Chair in Contemporary History, David has published on: the history of international relations and on Australia's role in the world; on biography and life stories; and on the history and memory of conflicts. His books include: Menzies and the 'Great World Struggle': Australia's Cold War 1948-1954 (UNSW Press, 1999); Australian Between Empires: the life of Percy Spender (Pickering and Chatto, 2010); with Tony Joel, Remembering the Cold War (Routledge, 2013); with Carola Lentz, Remembering Independence (Routledge, 2017); and The Colombo Plan: Development Internationalism in Cold War Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2025). He is joint editor, with Tony Joel, of the Routledge series, Remembering the Modern World. David is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.

Areas of Supervision include: History of Australia in world affairs; Memory and Conflict; Public and Cultural Diplomacy; Historical consciousness in politics; Twentieth Century international history.

Research Groups
https://blogs.deakin.edu.au/contemporary-history-studies/

http://aph.org.au/

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Deakin Distinguished Professor and Chair in Contemporary History
    Deakin University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Smuts Visiting Fellow
    University of Cambridge, Centre for South Asian Studies, Cambridge, United Kingdom1 Oct 2018 - 31 Mar 2019
  • Visiting Chair in Australian Studies
    University of Tokyo, Centre for Pacific and Australian Studies, Tokyo, Japan17 Sep 2019 - 17 Mar 2020

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy
    University of Cambridge
  • Bachelor of Arts
    Monash University

FIELDS OF RESEARCH

  • Historical studies
  • Political science
  • Cultural studies
  • Literary studies
  • Policy and administration

AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION

  • Masters by Research and PhD supervision

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Arts and Education

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE/DISCIPLINE

  • School of Humanities and Social Sciences

SPECIALIST RESEARCH GROUP

  • Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation