{"id":8,"date":"2012-09-13T17:39:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T17:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/facultyviscoustemplate\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2026-03-25T16:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:58:07","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/hilowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilary Iris Lowe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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is an associate professor in the History Department\u00a0<\/a>at Temple University, in Philadelphia and an affiliate faculty member in the Gender, Sexuality, and Women\u2019s Studies Program<\/a>. \u00a0She is also the MA Coordinator for History. She teaches courses in U.S. cultural history, public history, women’s history, oral history, and American studies. Her current research seeks to understand how humans have worked with and used historic places and literary objects to connect with literature and the past.\u00a0 She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Kansas. Her first book, Mark Twain\u2019s Homes and Literary Tourism<\/a><\/em>, was published in 2012 and is part of the Mark Twain and his Circle Series at the University of Missouri Press. \u00a0She and\u00a0Jennifer Harris edited the collection\u00a0From Page to Place: American Literary Tourism and the Afterlives of Authors<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(2017). In 2023 she finished “To Keep a Birthplace”: An Administrative History of John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is currently working on a long-term oral history documenting museums and museum workers<\/a> in Philadelphia and a study of the history of Americans’ obsession with the childhoods and childhood homes homes of U.S. presidents, tentatively entitled:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rose Kennedy, The National Park Service, and the Invention of Presidential Childhood<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She is fascinated by EVERY house museum (and doll house!) and would love to visit all 15,000 in the U.S. She has been teaching at Temple since 2012, living in Philadelphia since 2008, and obsessed with grasslands, water, and birds since her childhood in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

is an associate professor in the History Department\u00a0at Temple University, in Philadelphia and an affiliate faculty member in the Gender, Sexuality, and Women\u2019s Studies Program.…<\/p>\n

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