Curriculum VITAE DR CLAIRE LOWRIE Lecturer in History University of Sydney claire.lowrie@sydney.edu.au Educational Qualification 2004-2009 UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG, Australia Doctor of Philosophy - History Thesis Title: In Service of Empire: Domestic Servants and Colonial Mastery in Darwin and Singapore, 1890-1930. 2000-2003 UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG, Australia Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours Thesis Title: Collective Imperial Knowledge? : A Comparative Analysis of Malaya and Australia during the 1920s to the 1940s. Professional Experience 2012-CURRENT UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, Australia Lecturer in History Coordinator and lecturer for HSTY1089: Australia - Blood on the Wattle Coordinator, lecturer and tutor for HSTY2604: Popular Culture in Australia, 1850-1945. Coordinator for Histories of Australia (honours seminar). 2010-2012 UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE, Australia Lecturer in Australian History Coordinator, lecturer and tutor for HIST1051: The Australian Experience Coordinator, lecturer and tutor for HIST3620: Maps and Dreams Aboriginal / Colonial Encounters in Australian History Coordinator for HIST3001: Directed Reading and Research. 2008-2009 UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND, New Zealand Global History Lectureship Coordinator, lecturer and tutor for History 233/333 Australian History since 1788 Lecturer for History 103/103G: Global History 1
Lecturer for History 125: War, Peace and Society 2009, 2005-2007 UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG, Australia Guest Lecturer, Tutor and Research Assistant Guest lecturer and tutor for AUST101: Australian Studies / Cultures and Identities Tutor for HIST107: Empires, Colonies and the Clash of Civilisations 2005 Asia Research Institute (ARI), NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE, Singapore Visiting Research Affiliate Publications Forthcoming Monographs 1. Claire Lowrie, Masters and Servants: Cultures of Empire in the Tropics, 1880-1930, under contract with Manchester University Press. 2. Victoria Haskins and Claire Lowrie, Colonization and Domestic Service: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, under contract with Routledge (NY). Peer Reviewed and Referred Journal Articles 3. Claire Lowrie, White men and their Chinese boys : sexuality, masculinity and colonial power in Darwin and Singapore, 1880s-1930s, History Australia, vol. 10, no. 1, April 2013, pp. 35-57. 4. Julia Martinez and Claire Lowrie, Everyday American colonialism: Adapting to Chinese and Filipino domestic servants in the Philippines, Pacific Historical Review, vol. 81, no. 1, 2012, pp. 511-536. 5. Claire Lowrie. The transcolonial politics of Chinese domestic mastery in Singapore and Darwin 1910s-1930s, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, vol. 13, no. 1, 2012. 6. Julia Martinez and Claire Lowrie, Colonial constructions of masculinity: Transforming Aboriginal men into houseboys, Gender and History, vol. 21, no. 2 August, 2009, pp. 305-323. 7. Claire Lowrie, Domestic slaves and the rhetoric of protection in Darwin and Singapore during the 1920s and 1930s, Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia, vol. 39-40, part 2, 2008, pp. 334-356. Peer Reviewed and Referred Book Chapters 8. Claire Lowrie, White Women and Chinese Houseboys : Domestic Politics in Singapore and Darwin from the 1910s to the 1930s, in Victoria Haskins and Claire Lowrie (eds), Colonization and Domestic Service: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, under contract with Routledge (NY). 2
9. Claire Lowrie, Living History: The Colony, in Rebecca Beirne and James Bennett, Making Film and Television Histories: Australia and New Zealand, IB Tauris, London, 2011, pp. 285-290. 10. Claire Lowrie, Disruptions, Displacements and Homecoming, in Beatriz P. Lorente, Nicola Piper, Shen Hsiu-Hua and Brenda S. A. Yeoh (eds), Asian Migrations: Sojourning, Displacement, Homecoming and Other Travels, Asia Research Institute, Singapore, 2005, pp. 128-154. Peer Reviewed and Refereed Conference Proceedings 11. Claire Lowrie, Sold and stolen: domestic slaves and the rhetoric of protection in Darwin and Singapore during the 1920s, in Adrian Vickers and Margaret Hanlon (eds), Asia Reconstructed: Proceedings of the 16 th Biennial Conference of the ASAA, Wollongong, 2006. Book Reviews 12. Claire Lowrie, Exotic Australians: Review of Angela Woollacott s Race and the Modern Exotic, History Australia, vol. 9, no. 3, 2012, pp. 237-239. 13. Claire Lowrie, Contact Zones: Sport and Race in the Northern Territory, 1869-1953, by Matthew Stephen, Journal of Northern Territory History, iss. 23, 2012, pp. 94-96. Selected Conference Papers 2013 Resisting Colonial Mastery from the Inside Out: The Political Activism of Chinese Houseboys in Hong Kong and Singapore, during the 1920s and 1930s, International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS8), 24-27 June, Macao. Anti-Colonial Activism in the Home: Chinese Houseboys in Hong Kong and Singapore, 1910s -1930s, Dragon Tails: The 3 rd Australasian Conference on Overseas Chinese History and Heritage, 6-8 July, University of Wollongong. Chinese Houseboys in Hong Kong and Singapore, Australian Historical Association 32 nd Annual Conference, 8-12 July, University of Wollongong. 2011 Solar Topees and Servants: A History of Darwin and Singapore, 1890-1911, Australian Historical Association Regional Conference, 4-8 July, University of Tasmania, Launceston. Invited Public Lecture: Darwin in 1911: A Colonial City, Northern Territory Centenary History Seminar, 5 March, Northern Territory Library, Darwin. 2010 Our Mongolian Colonists : The Transcolonial Politics of Chinese Domestic Mastery in Singapore and Darwin, 1910s-1930s, Australian 3
Historical Association Biennial Conference, 5-9 July, University of Western Australia, Perth. 2009 Invited Paper: The New Mem would do well to beware the houseboy : Chinese Male Servants and the White Mistress in Darwin and Singapore, 1910s-1920s, Interracial Intimacies: New Zealand Histories Symposium, 19-20 June, University of Otago, New Zealand. 2008 In Service of Empire: British Colonialism and Male Domestic Servants in Darwin and Singapore, 1890s-1920s, Waged Domestic Work and the Making of the Modern World Conference, 9-11 May, University of Warwick, United Kingdom. 2007 Masters and Servants / Colonisers and Colonised: The Chinese in Singapore and Darwin, 1890-1910, International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS5), 2-5 August, Kuala Lumpur. 2006 Sold and Stolen: Domestic slaves and the rhetoric of protection in Darwin and Singapore during the 1920s and 1930s ASEAN Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies, 28-29 July, Asia Research Institute, Singapore 2005 Invited Paper: Disruptions, Displacements and Homecoming: Exploring Colonial Attitudes to Migration and Mobility in Australia and Malaya, Asia Trends 3: Asian Migrations, 20 September, Singapore A Transnational Labour of Love? Discourse and Domestic Servants in Darwin and Singapore, 1900-1942 International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS4), 20 _ 24 August, Shanghai. Research Grants and Awards 2012-2013 UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, New Staff Grant $5000 2011-2013 COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT OF AUSTRALIA Australian Research Council Discovery Grant J Martinez, V Haskins, F Steel and C Lowrie, Houseboys: A Transcolonial History of Domestic Service in the Asia Pacific, $135,000 2011 UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE Research Institute for Social Inclusion and Wellbeing (RISIW) Early Career Researcher Fellowship Domestic Service and Colonial History $15,000 4
UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE Teaching and Learning Project Grant R Parks, J Bennett, K Grushka, J May, R Imre, C Falzon, R Beirne, D Donnelly, H Sharp and C Lowrie, Visual Media Texts: Teaching & Assessing the Social Sciences in a Post-literate Age $10,000 2010 UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE New Staff grant A Hidden History of Houseboys in Singapore and Darwin, 1890s- 1930s $7000 UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONONG Jim Hagen Memorial Prize Awarded for best PhD thesis in the Faculty of Arts for 2009, University of Wollongong $500 2009 UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG University Research Council Grant J Martinez and C Lowrie, A Hidden History of Houseboys : Colonial Power and Male Domestic Servants in the American Philippines, 1898-1935, University of Wollongong $11,000 NORTHERN TERRITORY GOVERNMENT Northern Territory History Grant C Lowrie, A History of Chinese and Aboriginal Male Servants in Darwin, 1870-1930s $3,000 2007 COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT OF AUSTRALIA DEST Endeavour Research Fellowship C Lowrie, Houseboys in Singapore and Hong Kong, 1890s-1930s, Postdoctoral Research Programme in Singapore and Hong Kong, $25,000 UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG Best Conference Presentation Reflections on Society Stream, Degree Research (HDR) Conference $500 2005 NORTHERN TERRITORY GOVERNMENT Northern Territory History Grant C Lowrie, A History of Domestic Servants in Darwin, 1900-1942, $2000 UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG Fieldwork and Conference Funding $7000 5
2004-2008 UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG UNIVERSITY POSTGRADUATE AWARD C Lowrie, In Service of Empire: Domestic Service and Colonial Mastery in Singapore and Darwin, 1890s-1930s $70,000 Public and Professional Service 2012 Conference Co-Convenor (with V Haskins & P Nilan), Colonization and Domestic Service: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Research Symposium 16-17 July 2012, University of Newcastle 2010-2013 Culture, Gender and Sexuality Book Review Editor for Asian Studies Review (Routledge) 2010-2011 History Postgraduate Convenor, Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle, Australia 2008-CURRENT Member of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) 2008-2009 Academic Member, Staff and Student Consultative Committee, History Department, University of Auckland 2005-2006 Postgraduate Student Representative for the School of History and Politics and the Faculty of Arts Research Committee, University of Wollongong 2004-CURRENT Member of the Australian Historical Association (AHA) 6
Research and Teaching Interests Australian history Southeast Asian history Transnational history Colonial history Cross-cultural contact histories Domestic service Referees Professor Penny Russell Department of History School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry University of Sydney penny.russell@sydney.edu.au Associate Professor Victoria Haskins Research Institute for Social Inclusion and Wellbeing (RISIW) University of Newcastle Victoria.Haskins@newcastle.edu.au Associate Professor Malcolm Campbell Department of History University of Auckland mc.campbell@auckland.ac.nz 7