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.