Lisa Lowe is known for some of her notable works which include The Intimacies of Four Continents and was a Guggenheim and American Council of Learned Societies Fellow.
Lisa Lowe is Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University. She began as a scholar of French and comparative literature, and her work has since focused on the cultural politics of colonialism, immigration, and globalization. Her third monograph, The Intimacies of Four Continents (2015), is a study of settler colonialism, transatlantic African slavery, and the East Indies and China trades in goods and people as the conditions for modern European liberalism and empire. 2015: The Intimacies of Four Continents. Duke University Press "The Intimacies of Four Continents." In A. L. Stoler, ed., Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History'. Duke University Press, 2006 Guggenheim Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, School of Advanced Study University of London Comparative literature, race and colonialism, transnational feminism, British empire, Asian American studies Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics, The Intimacies of Four Continents 
