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Heath W. Lowry, is an American historian and the Ataturk Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies at Princeton University. His area of expertise is the history of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey and has authored numerous books in both of these fields.

Background
Spent two years(1964-1966) working in a remote village in western Turkey as a Peace Corps volunteer. In the late '60s, he was a graduate student at UCLA working with scholars Speros Vryonis, Jr., Andreas Tietze, Gustav von Grunebaum and Stanford J. Shaw. Taught full-time at Bosphorus University during the 1970s and served as the Istanbul Director of the American Research Institute in Turkey. Between 1979-1982 co-directed a team of international scholars working on Byzantine and Ottoman historical demography.

In 1983, with a group of distinguished scholars, businessmen, and retired diplomats and a grant from the Turkish government, he helped established the Institute of Turkish Studies at Georgetown University.

Since 1993, Lowry has been the Ataturk Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies at Princeton University, and served as the Director of the Program of Near Eastern Studies from July 1994-June 1999. He currently offers seminars on early Ottoman history and undergraduate lecture courses on Ottoman history and contemporary Turkey.

Views
Professor Lowry is a vocal opponent to the Recognition of the Armenian Genocide. In 1985, Lowry was instrumental in getting 69 academics to sign a letter against the recognition of the Armenian Genocide. The letter was then printed in the New York Times and Washington Post.

In 1990, psychologist Robert Jay Lifton received a letter from the Turkish Ambassador, Nuzhet Kandemir, to the United States, questioning his inclusion of references to the Armenian Genocide in one of his books. The ambassador inadvertently included a draft of a letter, presented by professor Heath Lowry, advising the ambassador on how to prevent mention of the Armenian Genocide in scholarly works. The incident has been the subject of numerous reports as to ethics in scholarship "Armenian Genocide Cannot Be Denied", New York Times, June 2, 1996.

Also, in 1990, he concluded that, Ambassador Morgenthau's Story, was a record of "crude half-truths and outright falsehoods".

Works

 * Fifteenth Century Ottoman Realities by Heath W. Lowry
 * Studies in defterology: Ottoman society in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (Analecta Isisiana) by Heath W Lowry
 * The Nature of the Early Ottoman State (Suny Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East) by Heath W. Lowry
 * The Islamization and Turkification of the City of Trabzon, Ca. 1486-1583 by Heath W. Lowry
 * DEFTEROLOGY REVISITED Studies on 15th &16th Century Ottoman Society by Heath W. Lowry
 * The U.S. Congress and Adolf Hitler on the Armenians by Heath W Lowry
 * Ottoman Bursa in Travel Accounts by Heath W. Lowry
 * The story behind Ambassador Morgenthau's story by Heath W Lowry