Eugene Lowe Jr. named to associate provost post at Northwestern University

Jet, July 3, 1995

Dr. Eugene Y. Lowe, Jr., former dean of students at Princeton University, has been named associate provost for faculty affairs at Northwestern University in Evanston, Il.

"Gene Lowe will be an outstanding addition to the senior administration," said Northwestern University President Henry S. Bienen. "I know him to be a man of extraordinary character and enormous talent."

Dr. Lowe will also hold a faculty appointment as a senior lecturer in religion in the College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern.

He served as dean of students at Princeton from 1983 to 1993. A historian of American religion, he also taught courses in American religious history at Princeton.

Dr. Lowe received a bachelor's degree in religion and graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1971, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society.

He earned a master's degree from Union Theological Seminary in New York in 1978 and a Ph.D in church history from Union Theological Seminary in 1987.

He is married to the Rev. Jane P. Henderson, Canon to the Ordinary of the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey. They have four children.