Heath W. Lowry

Heath Ward Lowry
Born (1942-12-23) 23 December 1942 (age 81)
London, England, United Kingdom
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of California Los Angeles
Doctoral advisorStanford J. Shaw
Academic work
EraOttoman Empire and Turkey
Main interestsHistory of Ottoman Empire, Oriental studies, Middle Eastern philosophy

Heath Ward Lowry (born 23 December 1942) is the Atatürk Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies emeritus at Princeton University and Bahçeşehir University. He is an author of books about the history of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey.

David B. MacDonald, of the Political Science department at the University of Guelph in Ontario, has labeled Lowry as one of the key deniers of the Armenian genocide.[1] According to Israeli historian Yair Auron, Justin McCarthy with Heath Lowry, Bernard Lewis's successor in Princeton, leads the list of Armenian genocide deniers.[2]

  1. ^ MacDonald, David B. (2008). Identity Politics in the Age of Genocide: The Holocaust and Historical Representation. London: Routledge. p. 121. ISBN 978-0-415-43061-6.
  2. ^ Auron, Yair, The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2003, p. 248.