ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Laura L. Lovett is an associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh, where she teaches the Global History of Childhood and Youth, Women’s History, and the Global Histories of Gender, Sex, and Sexuality. She attended UCLA as an undergraduate where she studied English and history. She earned a master’s degree at the University of California at San Diego in English and American literature before attending UC Berkeley, where she earned her PhD in history. As an historian, she specializes in twentieth-century US gender, sexuality, and women’s history and in the history of children and youth.

She is the author of Conceiving the Future: Pronatalism, Reproduction, and the Family in the United States, 1890–1930 (University of North Carolina Press, 2007) and co-editor of When We Were Free to Be: Looking Back at a Children’s Classic and the Difference It Made (University of North Carolina Press, 2012). She was a founding co-editor of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth and is the deputy editor for North America of Women’s History Review. She also co-edits a series entitled Childhoods for the University of Massachusetts Press.

Before moving to Pittsburgh, she was a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Dartmouth College, and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She has been a fellow at the Yale Agrarian Studies Program, the director of the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center, and secretary of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. She served as the director of Diversity Advancement for the College of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2013–2016. In 2017, she was selected to be a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.