Lisa Lowe

Lisa Lowe is the Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies at Yale University. She is an interdisciplinary scholar whose interests include the study of race and liberalism, immigration and U.S. empire, colonial domesticity and social reproduction, and cultures of globalization.

She has written extensively about race, immigration, capitalism, and colonialism. Her books include Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms (1991), Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (1996), and The Intimacies of Four Continents (2015. She is the co-editor of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (1997) and New Questions, New Formations: Asian American Studies, a special issue of Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique 5:2 (Fall 1997).

Lowe's work has been supported by fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Mellon Foundations, the School of Advanced Study at the University of London, the UC Humanities Research Institute, and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Lowe received her B.A. in History from Stanford University, and her Ph.D. in Literature from University of California, Santa Cruz. Prior to Yale, she taught at the University of California, San Diego, and Tufts University.