Michèle Lowrie is the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service [1] Professor of Classics and the college at the University of Chicago.
[3] Lowrie began teaching at New York University in 1990 after the completion of her doctorate, as Assistant and Associate Professor of Classics.
[3] During the period of 2000–2001, she was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton[5] and held the Burkhardt Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.
[4] She held a fellowship at the Research Center for Cultural Theory and Theory of the Political Imaginary at the Universität Konstanz in 2010–11,[4] and visited the Center for Advanced Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2018 to collaborate with Barbara Vinken on a book entitled Civil War and the Collapse of the Social Bond: The Roman Tradition at the Heart of the Modern, which came out in 2022.
[8][9] Lowrie was granted a Loeb Classical Library fellowship and made the Dirk Ippen Fellow for spring 2016 at the American Academy in Berlin, while working on a project entitled 'Safety, Security, and Salvation in Roman Political Thought,' which explored the Roman origins of concepts like national security or emergency and their relationships with societal values.