Dr Claire Lowrie
PhD (University of Wollongong)
Lecturer in Australian History
Room 848, MacCallum
+61 2 9351 8494
Claire Lowrie joined the department in 2012. She has lectured in Australian history and global history at the University of Newcastle (Australia) and the University of Auckland.
Research Areas
- Australian history
- Southeast Asian history
- comparative and transnational history
- British colonialism in the tropics
- history of domestic service
Current Projects
- Masters and Servants: Cultures of Empire in the Tropics, 1880-1930
- Houseboys: A transcolonial history of domestic service in the Asia-Pacific (with Julia Martinez, Victoria Haskins, and Frances Steel)
ARC Discovery Grant 2011-2013
Selected Publications
Articles
"The Transcolonial Politics of Chinese Domestic Mastery in Singapore and Darwin 1910s-1930s," Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 12, 3 (Winter 2011)
(with Julia Martinez) "Colonial Constructions of Masculinity: Transforming Aboriginal Australian Men into ‘Houseboys’", Gender & History, 21, 2 (August 2009): 305–323
Areas of teaching
- HSTY1089 Australia: Blood on the Wattle
- HSTY2604 Popular Culture in Australia 1850-1945
- HSTY2619 Living in Colonial Australia