Research interests
David conducts research in a number of aspects of contemporary history, including: the uses of history by politicians; remembering conflict and political transitions; the growth of international students as a factor in cultural diplomacy; and the history of Australia's foreign and aid policies, including overseas diplomatic representation.
Teaching interests
Modern international history, including conflict, memory and the public uses of history
Research groups
https://blogs.deakin.edu.au/contemporary-history-studies/
http://aph.org.au/
Publications
The Australian Embassy in Tokyo and Australia-Japan Relations
David Lowe, Kate Darian-Smith
(2023), pp. 1-16, The Australian Embassy in Tokyo and Australia-Japan Relations, Canberra, A.C.T., B1
Working at the Australian Embassy in Tokyo: The Experiences of Locally-Engaged Staff
David Lowe, Kate Darian-Smith
(2023), pp. 165-183, The Australian Embassy in Tokyo and Australia–Japan Relations, Canberra, A.C.T., B1
David Lee, David Lowe
(2023), pp. 41-76, The Australian Embassy in Tokyo and Australia-Japan Relations, Canberra, A.C.T., B1
The Cold War and Regions of Memory
David Lowe, Tony Joel
(2022), pp. 19-47, Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies, Berlin, Germany, B1
Foreign Aid: Australia's Reputation at Stake?
D Lowe
(2022), pp. 117-130, Lessons from History : Leading Historians Tackle Australia's Greatest Challenges, Sydney, NSW, B1
Seeing the world with the past
David Lowe, Carolyn Holbrook, Lyndon Megarrity
(2022), pp. 1-7, Lessons from History, Sydney, N.S.W., B1
Carolyn Holbrook, Lyndon Megarrity, David Lowe
(2022), pp. 346-349, Lessons from History, Sydney, N.S.W., B1
The buildings and their locally engaged staff
D Lowe
(2022), pp. 87-103, Rising Power and Changing People: the Australian High Commission in India, Canberra, ACT, B1
High Commissioners as scholarly observers
D Lowe
(2022), pp. 201-220, Rising Power and Changing People: the Australian High Commission in India, Canberra, ACT, B1
Australia-India Student Mobility and Performances of Transnationalism
David Lowe, Anna Kent, Michelle Lobo
(2022), pp. 193-208, Routledge Handbook of Asian Transnationalism, London, Eng., B1
High Commissioners as Scholarly Observers: Crocker on Nehru, and Grant on Indira Gandhi
David Lowe
(2022), pp. 201-219, Rising Power and Changing People: The Australian High Commission in India, Canberra, ACT., B1
Lessons from History : Leading Historians Tackle Australia's Greatest Challenges
C Holbrook, L Megarrity, D Lowe
(2022), Randwick, NSW, A7
Rising Power and Changing People : The Australian High Commission in India
D Lowe, E Meadows
(2022), Canberra, ACT, A7
Atomic Testing in Australia: memories. mobilizations and mistrust
David Lowe
(2021), Vol. 11, pp. 95-112, Remembering Social Movements: Activism and Memory, London, Eng., B1
"Behind the white curtain": Indian students and researchers in Australia, 1901-1950
A Sarwal, D Lowe
(2021), Vol. 50, pp. 212-225, History of Education Review, C1
Can historians influence public policy? Challenges and possibilities
C Holbrook, D Lowe
(2021), Vol. 18, pp. 3-22, History Australia, C1
New Zealand and the Colombo Plan in the long 1950s
David Lowe
(2020), History Australia, Melbourne, Vic., C1
Australia's atomic past : memories, mistrust and policy legacies
David Lowe
(2020), Vol. 22, pp. 98-111, Journal of applied history, Leiden, The Netherlands, C1
'Between politics and scholarship': The first decade of the Institut Für Zeitgeschichte, 1949-1958
M Turner, T Joel, D Lowe
(2019), Vol. 49, pp. 250-271, European History Quarterly, C1
Sponsored Students and the Rise of "the International" in Australian Communities
D Lowe, A Kent
(2019), Vol. 43, pp. 487-502, Journal of Australian Studies, C1
David Lowe
(2019), Vol. 1, pp. 42-52, Journal of Applied History, Leiden, The Netherlands, C1
Introduction : an unfinished atomic bomb
D Lowe, C Atherton, A Miller
(2018), pp. ix-xviii, The unfinished atomic bomb : shadows and reflections, Lanham, Md., B1
The Manhattan Project Historical National Park
D Lowe
(2018), pp. 167-184, The unfinished atomic bomb : shadows and reflections, Lanham, Md., B1
The unfinished atomic bomb: shadows and reflections
D Lowe, C Atherton, A Miller
(2018), Lanham, Md., A7
The Australian embassy in Washington
D Lowe, D Lee, C Bridge
(2016), pp. 1-21, Australia goes to Washington : 75 years of Australian representation in the United States, 1940-2015, Canberra, A.C.T., B1
Percy Spender and club America in the 1950s
D Lowe
(2016), pp. 57-77, Australia goes to Washington : 75 years of Australian representation in the United States, 1940-2015, Canberra, A.C.T., B1
D Lowe, D Lee
(2016), pp. 255-260, Australia goes to Washington : 75 years of Australian representation in the United States, 1940-2015, Canberra, A.C.T., B1
Australia goes to Washington: 75 years of Australian representation in the United States, 1940-2015
David Lowe, David Lee, C Bridge
(2016), Canberra, A.C.T., A7
Australia's Colombo plans, old and new: international students as foreign relations
D Lowe
(2015), Vol. 21, pp. 448-462, International journal of cultural policy, London, Eng., C1
The Colombo Plan: modernisation and memory and cultural engagement in Australia and New Zealand
D Lowe
(2015), Vol. 28, pp. 142-153, Journal of Australian studies, Tokyo, Japan, C1-1
Remembering the Cold War: global contest and national stories
D Lowe, T Joel
(2013), Abingdon, England, A1
The historical roots of public diplomacy and their significance for Australia and India
D Lowe
(2013), pp. 1-25, Enriched relations: public diplomacy in Australia-Indian relations, Delhi, India, B1
Journalists and Australian stirrings in public diplomacy in the 1950s and 1960s
D Lowe
(2013), pp. 91-106, Enriched relations : public diplomacy in Australia-India relations, Dehli, India, B1
Security
D Lowe
(2013), pp. 494-517, Cambridge history of Australia, Port Melbourne, Vic., B1
Journalists and the stirring of Australian public diplomacy: the Colombo Plan towards the 1960s
D Lowe
(2013), Vol. 48, pp. 175-190, Journal of contemporary history, London, England, C1
The historical roots of public diplomacy and their significance for India
D Lowe
(2012), pp. 105-122, The reluctant superpower : understanding India and its aspirations, Melbourne, Vic, B1
Cold war London : Harrison and White
D Lowe
(2010), pp. 127-139, The high commissioners : Australia's representatives in the United Kingdom, 1910-2010, Barton, A.C.T., B1
Autobiography in Australian parliamentary first speeches
D McCooey, D Lowe
(2010), Vol. 33, pp. 68-83, Biography (Honolulu) : an interdiscliplinary quarterly, Honolulu, Hi., C1
D Lowe
(2010), Geelong, Vic., A6-1
From war to postwar : Ted Williams in Canberra, 1946-52
D Lowe
(2008), pp. 275-293, Diplomats at war : British and Commonwealth diplomacy in wartime, Leiden, The Netherlands, B1
Generation B and the end of empire
D Lowe
(2008), pp. 437-442, Making Australian history : perspectives on the past since 1788, South Melbourne, Vic., B1-1
From Sudan to Suez: strategic encounters
D Lowe
(2006), pp. 35-50, Australia and the Middle East : a front-line relationship, London, England, B1
Australia`s cold war : Britishness and English-speaking worlds challenged anew
D Lowe
(2005), pp. 361-380, Rediscovering the British world, Calgary, Canada, B1
D Lowe
(2005), pp. 1-12, Australia and the Colombo plan, 1949-1957, Barton, A.C.T., B1-1
Three world wars : Australia and the global implications of twentieth century wars
D Lowe
(2005), pp. 117-127, Globalization, regionalization and the history of international relations, Milano, Italy, B1-1
Brave new Liberal : Percy Spender
D Lowe
(2005), Vol. 51, pp. 389-399, Australian journal of politics and history, Brisbane, Qld., C1
Howard, Downer and the Liberals' realist tradition
D Lowe, G Smith
(2005), Vol. 51, pp. 459-472, Australian journal of politics and history, Brisbane, Qld., C1
Percy Spender, Minister and Ambassador
D Lowe
(2003), pp. 62-87, Ministers, mandarins and diplomats : Australian foreign policy making, 1941-1969, Carlton, Vic., B1
Ministers, mandarins and diplomats : Australian foreign policy making, 1941-1969
J Beaumont, C Waters, D Lowe, G Woodard
(2003), Carlton, Vic., A7
D Lowe
(2002), Vol. 25, pp. 183-204, South Asia: journal of South Asian studies, Nedlands, W. A., C1
D Lowe
(2001), Vol. 55, pp. 187-198, Australian journal of international affairs, Abingdon, England, C1
Australia at the United Nations in the 1950s: the paradox of empire
D Lowe
(1997), Vol. 51, pp. 171-181, Australian journal of international affairs, Abingdon, Eng., C1-1
Percy Spender and the Colombo plan 1950
D Lowe
(1994), Vol. 40, pp. 162-176, Australian journal of politics and history, Chichester, Eng., C1-1
Funded Projects at Deakin
Australian Competitive Grants
Australian politicians and the uses of history: from Federation to the present
Prof David Lowe, Prof James Walter
ARC - Discovery Projects
- 2014: $3,083
- 2013: $16,000
- 2012: $43,836
- 2011: $40,805
- 2010: $42,058
50 years of Papua New Guinean and Indonesian tertiary scholarships in Australia: an assessment of post-scholarship leadership, networks and linkages with Australia
Prof David Lowe, Dr Jonathan Ritchie
AusAID Grant - Australian Development Research Awards - Australian Agency for International Development
- 2014: $299,821
- 2013: $315,466
Australia's foreign aid since 1945: national values and aid allocation
Prof David Lowe, Prof Mark McGillivray
ARC - Discovery Projects
- 2019: $133,455
- 2018: $153,493
- 2017: $108,386
A Conceptual History of Australian National Security since 1901
Prof David Lowe, A/Prof Carolyn Holbrook, Prof Eckart Conze
ARC - Discovery Projects
- 2023: $80,652
- 2022: $97,356
- 2021: $57,748
Witnesses to war and peace: Australian recollections of Korea and Koreans, 1953-2023
A/Prof David Hundt, Prof David Lowe
Department of Veterans' Affairs - Veteran and Community Grants Program
- 2023: $32,321
Other Public Sector Funding
Regional Research and Information Centre - A review of the current data in the Health and Wellbeing Pillar of G21
Prof David Lowe, A/Prof Kevin O'Toole
G21 Grant - Research - Geelong Region Alliance
- 2010: $80,000
Policies and governance to support integrated landscape management in a changing environment.
Prof Andy Bennett, Prof David Lowe, A/Prof Kevin O'Toole
DSE Grant - Research - Dept Sustainability & Environment VIC
- 2012: $161,250
- 2010: $53,750
Enriched Relations: Cultural Diplomacy in Australian-Indian relations, past and present
Prof David Lowe, Prof David Walker
Aust India Institute
- 2011: $18,181
Regional Research and Information Centre Business Plan
Prof David Lowe
DIIRD Grant Research - Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development
- 2011: $15,000
Australia's Embassy in Tokyo: history from Australian and Japanese perspectives
Prof David Lowe
Aust Japan Foundation
- 2016: $9,660
Australia-India Student Mobility: Experiences, Lessons and Transformations
Prof David Lowe, Dr Liudmila Druzenko, Dr Michele Lobo
DFAT Australia-India Council Grants Program
- 2017: $50,000
Other Funding Sources
Post Pandemic Positions: Australian NGOs and education in a century of internationalism - students, experts and friends.
Prof David Lowe
Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia ASSA Workshop Program grants
- 2022: $7,796
Supervisions
Hirokazu Matsui
Thesis entitled: Australia and International Reemergence of Japan, 1952-1962
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Ellen Georgina Gray
Thesis entitled: Australia and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution: Diplomacy in the United Nations
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Anna Kent
Thesis entitled: Australian scholarships for Papua New Guinea and the South Pacific: mandates and missteps, 1948 - 2018
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Galit Chantrell
Thesis entitled: The San Remo Conference 1920: its meaning and memory
Master of Arts, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Lisa Couacaud
Thesis entitled: The Ideal America(n): Dwight Eisenhower's Elusive Search
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Khylie Daws
Thesis entitled: Advancing Australia: Cultural Diplomacy in the Menzies Era
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Sarah Coates
Thesis entitled: Belsen, Dachau, 1945: Newspapers and the First Draft of History
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Mathew John Turner
Thesis entitled: Experts' History: the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial and Anatomie des SS-Staates
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Eric Meadows
Thesis entitled: A diplomatic history of Australia's relations with India 1944-1962
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Helena Morris
Thesis entitled: Kingsley Henderson: Architect of Civic Virtue in Interwar Melbourne
Master of Arts, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Lancelot Schultz
Thesis entitled: International Standing, International Reputation and Australian Foreign Policy
Doctor of Philosophy, School of History, Heritage and Society
Christopher Linke
Thesis entitled: Side-by-side Memorials and Australian Vietnam War Remembrance Australian Police Memorialisation, Commemoration and Remembrance Australian Police Memorialisation, Commemoration and Remembrance Australian Police Memorialisation, Commemoration and Remembrance
Master of Arts, School of History, Heritage and Society
Jodie Boyd
Thesis entitled: Conservative Discourse at the Time of the Korean War, 1950-52
Doctor of Philosophy, School of History, Heritage and Society
Johannes Werner Steinbach
Thesis entitled: Threats, Fear, Politics and the Shaping of Insecurity 1946-1955
Doctor of Philosophy, School of History, Heritage and Society
Graham Alwin McLean
Thesis entitled: The History of the Geelong Regional Commission
Doctor of Philosophy, School of History, Heritage and Society
Daniel House
Thesis entitled: Rethinking the Region: Australia and Britain's withdrawal from Southeast Asia, 1965-1971
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Social & International Studies
Lori Snowden
Thesis entitled: Water Escaping Sovereignty: The Hydropolitics of the Tigris-Euphrates River
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Australian & International Studies
Graham Alwin McLean
Thesis entitled: The diversification of Geelong's industrial development IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Master of Arts, School of Australian & International Studies
Sean Mackin
Thesis entitled: The Essence Of Trident
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Lisa Cooper
Thesis entitled: A 'most heartbreaking job': caring for the dead of Australia's war against Japan
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Emma Jane Parker
Thesis entitled: Gottfried Helnwein's provocation of Austrian memories of the Nazi past
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Digby Wren
Thesis entitled: The Belt And Road: Implementing China¿s Plan For National Rejuvenation
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Ravi Dutt Bajpai
Thesis entitled: Civilizational Perspectives in International Relations and Contemporary China-India Relations
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Amita Vengacherry Joseph
Thesis entitled: Effectiveness of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) guidelines in India
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Yenny Narny
Thesis entitled: Resilience of West Sumatran Women: Historical, Cultural and Social Impacts
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Suresh Joshi
Thesis entitled: Understanding health behaviour trajectories of immigrants in Australia: a longitudinal investigation
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Marc Curran
Thesis entitled: Towards better multidimensional well-being measurement
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Julie Anne Suares
Thesis entitled: An ardent internationalist: Ben Chifley and the new world order
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Gregory Watters
Thesis entitled: The White Doctors' Burden: The Australian Medical Professionand Asia
Doctor of Philosophy, School of History, Heritage and Society
Sally Percival Wood
Thesis entitled: Sovereignty and Resistance: India, China and the Asian-African Conference, 1955
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Ramesh Somasunderam
Thesis entitled: The Strategic Importance of the Island State of Sri Lanka
Master of Arts, School of Social & International Studies
Rodney Cummins
Thesis entitled: Australian Perceptions of the Orient 1880-1910
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Australian & International Studies