Rate My Professor Dina Lowy

Dina Lowy is Associate Professor and Chairperson of the History Department at Gettysburg College, where she joined the faculty in 2000. She holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. from Princeton University (1992), an additional M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania (1988), an M.A. from Rutgers University (1998), and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University (2000). Lowy's research examines modern Japanese history, focusing on gender and modernity. Her book, The Japanese "New Woman": Images of Gender and Modernity (Rutgers University Press, 2007), analyzes depictions and debates of the "new woman" in early twentieth-century Japanese newspapers and magazines. She published "Nora and the 'New Woman': Visions of Gender and Modernity in Japanese Illustrated Fiction" in Monumenta Nipponica, volume 59, number 1 (Spring 2004). Other works include a review of Amy Stanley's Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan in the American Historical Review (October 2013) and an entry on the "Samurai Suit of Armor" in The Faculty Notebook, May 2012.

In her courses at Gettysburg College, Lowy teaches History 325: Tokugawa Japan, Modern Japan, Modern China, and a First-Year Seminar, Tea: An Experiential History, which features Japanese tea ceremonies. She was awarded a $1,000 Johnson Center Information Literacy Grant for 2019-2020 to revise Tokugawa Japan, incorporating library instruction on source searches, peer reviews, group presentations, and rubric-based feedback to strengthen primary source analysis. As department chair, Lowy oversees the History program, including summer institutes for world history teachers and curriculum planning. She serves on the International and Global Studies faculty, advises the Gettysburg College Historical Society, participates in institutional working groups, and contributes to faculty development through workshops and presentations.