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Associate Professor
Office: Herter 635
Telephone: (413) 545-6778
Fax: (413) 545-6137
E-mail: lovett@history.umass.edu
Personal web site
Degree: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (1998)
Field(s) of interest: Modern US, Women’s History, Cultural
History
Graduate Courses Offered:
History of Childhood and Youth
U.S. Women & Gender
Research Interests and Professional Activities
Professor Lovett's research interests concern gender, race and the family in
twentieth century America. She published Conceiving the Future: Pronatalism,
Reproduction and the Family in the United States, 1890-1930, with the University
of North Carolina Press in 2007. She is currently engaged in research on two
projects: one on the role of gender in the Scopes Trial and another on the rise
of non-sexist early childhood education. From 2008 to 2011, she will be the
Director of the Five College Women's Studies Research Center, http://www.fivecolleges.edu/sites/fcwsrc/.
She is also the co-editor of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, http://www.umass.edu/jhcy/
Courses Taught Recently
Graduate Courses
Topics in U. S. Women's and Gender History
http://people.umass.edu/llovett/697unlinked.html
Seminar in U.S. Women's and Gender History
http://people.umass.edu/llovett/791.html
History of Childhood and Youth
http://people.umass.edu/llovett/697Z.html
Undergraduate Courses
History 151: Development of American Civilization Since 1876 (offered Spring 2004)
History 200: New Approaches to the Study of History - The Scopes Trial (offered Fall 2007)
History 388: US Women's History to 1890 (offered Fall 2003)
History 389: US Women's History Since 1890 (offered Spring 2008)
History 393S: Topics in the History of Sexuality in the U.S. (offered Spring 2004)
History 397F: Ideas of Normalcy in the United States (offered Fall 2005)
History 397U: History of Youth in America, 1865-Present (offered Spring 2007)
History 594F: U.S. Immigrant Women (offered Fall 2006)
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