Since 1993 Heath W. Lowry has been the Atatürk Professor of Ottoman & Modern Turkish Studies at Princeton University.  Prior to that time he was a founding member of the History Department at the Bosphorus University in İstanbul, Turkey (1973–1980), and a Senior Research Associate at Harvard University’s Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection in Washington, D.C. (1980–1983).  Between 1983 and 1993 he established and directed the Institute of Turkish Studies in Washington, D.C.  Currently, together with his position at Princeton University, he serves as an Advisor to the Bahçeşehir University Board of Trustees in İstanbul, Turkey.

His earlier publications include: The Islamization & Turkification of Trabzon (Trebizond), 1461–1583 (İstanbul: Bosporus University, 1981 [Turkish] & İstanbul: Isis Press, 2009 [English]); Continuity and Change in Late Byzantine & Early Ottoman Society [with A. Bryer, et. al.] (Birmingham, England: Univ. of Birmingham; & Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1986); Fifteenth Century Ottoman Realities: Christian Peasant Life on the Aegean Island of Limnos (İstanbul: Eren Publications, 2002); Ottoman Bursa in Travel Accounts (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Ottoman & Modern Turkish Studies Publications, 2003); The Nature of the Early Ottoman State (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003); Studies in Defterology: Ottoman Society in the Fifteenth & Sixteenth Centuries, 2nd edition (İstanbul: The Isis Press, 2006); Defterology Revisited: Studies on 15th & 16th Century Ottoman Society (İstanbul: The Isis Press, 2008); and An Ongoing Affair: Turkey & I [Book I. The Bereketli Years, 1964–1966] (İstanbul, Turkey: Çitlembik; & Eden, South Dakota: Nettleberry, 2008).

His most recent works, all of which have been published by Bahçeşehir University in English & Turkish editions, are: The Shaping of the Ottoman Balkans, 1350–1550: Conquest, Settlement & Infrastructural Development of Northern Greece (İstanbul, 2008); In the Footsteps of the Ottomans: A Search for Sacred Spaces & Architectural Monuments in Northern Greece (İstanbul, 2009); and Ottoman Architecture in Greece: A Review Article with Addendum & Corrigendum (İstanbul, 2009).

Work in progress includes a book (co-authored with İsmail E. Erünsal) titled:  Notes & Documents on the Evrenos Dynasty of Yenice-i Vardar (Giannitsa), which is scheduled to be released by the Bahçeşehir University Press in Spring, 2010.