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Assistant 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:
American Historiography 1865 - Present
U.S. Women & Gender
Research Interests and Professional Activities
Professor Lovett’s research interests concern gender, race
and the family in twentieth century America. Her current book project
refigures American pronatalism in terms of family ideals and their
role in reform efforts ranging from land reclamation to eugenics.
Entitled Conceiving the Future: Nostalgic Modernism, Reproduction
and the Family in the United States, 1890-1930, this book is
under contract with the University of North Carolina Press. Her
related article, "Rooted in the Soil: Family Ideals, Land Reclamation
and Irrigation Resettlement as Welfare in the United States, 1897-1933",
recently appeared in Families of a New World: Familialism and
the Process of State-Making, edited by Lynne Haney and Lisa
Pollard (Routledge, 2003). Her article on mixed race and identity,
"'African and Cherokee By Choice': Race and Resistance Under
Legalized Segregation," was recently reprinted in Confounding
the Color Line: the Indian-Black experience in North America,
edited by James Brooks (University of Nebraska Press, 2002). During
the 2004-205 academic year, Professor Lovett will be at the institute
on "Hinterlands, Frontiers, Cities, and States: Transactions
and Identities" as a Postdoctoral Fellow affiliated with the
Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University.
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