Matthew Lowenstein will join the Hamilton School as an Assistant Professor of Humanities in academic year 2026-2027. Lowenstein is a Hoover Fellow at the Stanford University Hoover Institution. He studies the economic, social, and political history of modern China from the Qing dynasty to the early People’s Republic. Prior to entering the academy, Lowenstein worked as a securities analyst in Beijing, where he covered the Chinese financial and shadow-banking sectors.