Kimberly Lowe

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Kimberly Lowe is a PhD candidate in Modern European History working under Jay Winter, Adam Tooze, and Bruno Cabanes.  Entitled “The Red Cross and the New World Order, 1918-1925,” her project analyzes the international Red Cross movement’s attempt to recover the ravaged moral foundations of  “universal humanitarian” action after the First World War. Using a series of case studies of international Red Cross relief efforts, it addresses scholarship in both the humanities and social sciences concerned with the First World War’s effect on the social and cultural development of the twentieth century, the politicization of humanitarian aid, and the relationship between human rights and national sovereignty. In the course of this project Kimberly has been a visiting scholar at the Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg in Germany and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. During the 2012-13 academic year she is finishing her dissertation in residence at Yale University.