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Peggy A. Lovell, PhD

University of Florida, 1989

Title: Associate Professor
Campus Address: 2619 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Tel: 412-648-7566
E-mail: lovell@pitt.edu
Web Page: www.pitt.edu/~lovell

 

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D. University of Florida, Sociology, 1989
M.A. University of Florida, Latin American Studies, 1986
B.A. Florida International University, Liberal Studies, 1983

Areas of Specialization

Race and Gender Studies
Latin American Development
Social Demography
Population and the Environment

Languages

Portuguese, Spanish

Professional Experience

  • Visiting Associate Professor, Sociology and Latin American Studies, Florida International University, 2007-2008
  • Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, 2004-present
  • Associate Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, 2005-06
  • Associate Professor with Tenure, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Sociology and Center for Latin American Studies, 1996
  • Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, 1997-1998
  • Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Sociology and
    Center for Latin American Studies, 1990-1996
  • University of Pittsburgh's Semester at Sea, 1995
  • Visiting Fellow, Population Research Center, University of Texas, Austin, 1993-94
  • Visiting Professor, Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional,
    Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1989-90
  • Research Assistant, Data analyst on Demographic Projects, Center for Health Policy Research, J. Hillis Miller Health Science Center, University of Florida, 1989
  • Research Assistant, Data analyst on U.S. Population Studies Projects, Department of Sociology and Urban & Regional Research Center, University of Florida, 1988
  • Internship, Ford Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1988
  • Fellowships, Teaching and Research Assistant, University of Florida, 1986-89

Courses Taught

  • Honors Thesis Seminar
  • Comparative Studies of Brazil and the USA
  • Seminar in Population
  • Gender, Race and Class
  • Minority Groups
  • The Demography of Racial Inequality in Brazil
  • Race, Gender and Development in the Americas
  • Comparative Perspectives on Women
  • Introduction to Sociology
  • Latin American Societies I and II
  • Latin American Development Theory
  • Population and Development
  • Demography
  • Quantitative Methods

Awards

  • Center for Latin American Studies Undergraduate Teaching Fellowship, 2002
  • Mellon Foundation Fellowship for the Study of Brazilian Demography, 1993-94
  • The Rockefeller Foundation Social Science Research Fellowship, 1989-90
  • The Ford Foundation Summer Internship, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1988
  • Howard W. Odum Award for Best Graduate Student Paper, with Jeffrey Dwyer, Southern Sociological Society, 1988
  • Department of Education Title VI Fellowship, 1984-5
  • Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges; The National Deans List; Graduate with Honors, Outstanding Academic Achievement, 1983

Editor

  • Contributing Editor, Handbook of Latin American Studies, Social Sciences,
    Sociology in Brazil, Hispanic Division, Library of Congress: Washington, D.C., 1992-1998

Edited Book

  • Lovell, Peggy A. (ed.)
    Desigualdade Racial no Brasil Contempôraneo. Belo Horizonte: MGSP Editores

Selected Publications (*Reviewed)

  • Lovell, Peggy A.*

           "Race, Gender and Work in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1960-2000." Latin American

            Research Review, Volume 41(3):63-87, 2006.

  • Lovell, Peggy A.*

           "Demographics and Enrollment Study: Avonworth School District." Report

            prepared for Avonworth School District, 2006.

  • Lovell, Peggy A*

           "Social Sciences, Sociology, Brazil." Handbook of Latin American Studies,

           Vol. 58, Hispanic Division, Library of Congress: Washington, DC, 2003.

  • Lovell, Peggy A*

           "Race, Gender and Regional labor Market Inequalities in Brazil." Reprinted

            as pp.14-26 in Ashwini Deshpande and William Darity Jr. (eds.),

            Boundaries of Clan and Color: Transnational Compaisons of Inter

           Group Disparity. Routledge:London.

  • Lovell, Peggy A*
    "Gender, race and the struggle for social justice in Brazil." Reprinted in Filomina Steady (ed.), Black Women, Globalization and Economic Justice, Pgs. 330-349, Schenkman Books Inc: Rochester, VT, 2002
  • Lovell, Peggy A. *
    "Race, gender and regional labor market inequalities in Brazil." Review of Social Economy, Vol. LVIII (3):277-293, 2000
  • Lovell, Peggy A.*
    "Gender, race and the struggle for social justice in Brazil." Latin American Perspectives, Vol 27(6):85-103, 2000
  • Lovell, Peggy A.*
    "Development and the persistence of racial inequality in Brazil: 1950-1991." Journal of Developing Areas 33 (Spring):395-418, 1999
  • Lovell, Peggy A. *
    "Women and racial inequality at work in Brazil." Pp. 138-153 In Michael Hanchard (ed.), Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil, Duke University Press, 1999
  • Lovell, Peggy A. and Charles H. Wood*
    "Skin color, racial identity and life chances in Brazil." Latin American Perspectives,
    Issue 100, Vol 25 No.3, May: 90-109, 1998
  • Lovell, Peggy A.*
    "Frontier settlement and child mortality in the Brazilian Amazon."
    Population and Environment 17(5):409-426, 1996
  • Lovell, Peggy A.*
    "Race, gender and development in Brazil." Latin American Research Review
    29 (3):7-35, (Translated, "Raça e genero no Brasil." Lua Nova, 1995 (35):39-71), 1994
  • Lovell, Peggy A.
    "Social sciences, sociology, Brazil." Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol 53, Hispanic Division, Library of Congress: Washington, D.C., 1994
  • Lovell, Peggy A.*
    "The geography of economic development and racial discrimination in Brazil." Development and Change January 24 (1):83-101, 1993
  • Lovell, Peggy A.
    "Raça, classe, genero e discriminaçao salarial no Brasil." Estudos Afro-Asiaticos
    22:85-98, 1992
  • Lovell, Peggy A.*
    "Development and racial inequality in Brazil: wage discrimination in urban labor markets, 1960-1980." The Peopling of the Americas, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, 2:481-494, 1992
  • Wood, Charles and Peggy A. Lovell*
    Racial inequality and child mortality in Brazil." Social Forces 70(3):703-724, 1992
  • Stephen McCracken and Peggy A. Lovell
    "Mother's roles, household arrangements and child mortality in Brazil."
    Pp. 13-56 in The Young and the Elderly in Brazil, Diana Sawyer and
    Stephen D. McCracken (eds.), Belo Horizonte: CEDEPLAR, 1992
  • Wood, Charles and Peggy A. Lovell*
    "Indirect measures of child mortality: Overview and application to
    Brazil, 1980." Social Indicators 23:247-267, 1990
  • Dwyer, Jeffrey and Peggy A. Lovell*
    "Earnings differentials between whites and Japanese: the case
    of Brazil." Sociological Perspectives 33(2):185-199, 1990
  • Lovell Webster, Peggy and Jeffrey Dwyer*
    "The cost of being nonwhite in Brazil." Sociology and Social
    Research 72 (January):136-142, 1988

Grants

  • UCIS Small Grant, University  Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 2005.
  • Center for Latin American Studies Travel Grant, University of Pittsburgh, 2005.
  • Faculty of Arts and Sciences travel grant, University of Pittsburgh, 2005.
  • Central Research Development Fund, Grant for the Study of "Gender, Race and the Struggle for Social Justice in Brazil." University of Pittsburgh ($9,094), 1998-2000
  • Heinz Foundation Social Policy Grant for the Study of "Child Health and Changing Land Use in the Brazilian Amazon," Principal Investigator, the Howard Heinz Endowment ($14,000), 1995/98
  • CAS Curriculum Development Grant, University of Pittsburgh, ($1,200), 1997
    Faculty Research Grant, Alcoa Foundation, Center for Latin American Studies, University, of Pittsburgh ($2,500), 1997
  • Faculty Research Grant, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh ($3,500), 1995
  • Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, Program in Historical Foundations
    of Ethnic Relations in Latin America and the Caribbean, Institute
    of Latin American Studies, University of Texas, Austin ($25,000), [Awarded but declined], 1994/95
  • Mellon Foundation Fellowship for the Study of Brazilian Demography,
    Population Research Center, University of Texas, Austin ($31,000)
    [Awarded but declined], 1994/95
  • Heinz Foundation Social Policy Grant for the Study of "Population,
    Environment and Changing Land Use in the Brazilian and Bolivian
    Amazon," Co-Principal Investigator, the Howard Heinz Endowment
    ($25,000), 1994
  • Faculty Fellowship, Center for Latin American Studies, University
    of Pittsburgh ($9,500), 1994
  • Curriculum Development Grant, University of Pittsburgh ($3,000), 1993
  • Mellon Foundation Fellowship for the Study of Brazilian Demography
    ($20,000), 1993/94
  • Central Research Development Fund Award, University of Pittsburgh ($7,892), 1992
  • Faculty Research Grant, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh ($3,500), 1992
  • University Center for International Studies Research Conference Travel Grant ($555), 1992
  • Population Association of America International Conference Travel Grant ($700), 1992
  • Faculty Research Grant, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh ($2,500), 1992
  • Research Grant on Current Latin American Issues, the Howard Heinz Endowment, Principal Investigator, ($22,300), 1991
  • Faculty Research Grant, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh ($2,500), 1991
  • Rockefeller Foundation grant to purchase census and survey data for the Federal University of Minas Gerais ($3,000), 1990
  • Ford Foundation grant to support the international conference on "Desigualdade
    Racial no Brasil Contemporaneo." CEDEPLAR, Belo Horizonte, Brazil ($35,000), 1990
  • Pre-Dissertation Field Research (Brazil), Center for Latin American Studies,
    Division of Sponsored Research, and Florida/Brazil Institute, University of Florida ($2,800), 1987
  • Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant (Mexico) ($1,000), 1984

Papers Presented (*Reviewed)

  • "Race, Gender and Work in Sao Paulo, Brazil: 1960-2000." Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2006.*
  • "The Economic Progress of Black and White Women in Brazil, 1960-2000." International Sociological Association's Symposium on "Demographic Indicators of Inequality." Sliema, Malta.
  • "Gender, race and the struggle for social justice in Brazil." American Sociological Association, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 1998 *
  • "Child survival in the Brazilian Amazon." North Central Sociological Association, Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, 1995
  • "Cross-currents and vital linkages in Brazilian and Caribbean studies of race relations." American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Miami, 1993
  • "The social demography of racial inequality in Brazil." Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas, Austin, 1993
  • "Male-female and black-white wage differentials in Brazil." Women in Development, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, 1993
  • "Race, class and gender" Latin American Studies Association, Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, 1992*
  • "Economic development and earnings differences between white and Afro-Brazilian women, 1960-1988," American Sociological Association, Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, 1992*
  • "The intersection of race, class and gender in Brazilian society." Centro de Estudos Afro-Asiaticos, Rio de Janeiro, 1992
  • "Development and racial inequality in Brazil." The Peopling of the Americas, Veracruz, 1992*
  • "Skin color, social class and the census in Brazil." American Sociological ssociation Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, 1991 *
  • "Color, class and economic inequality in Brazil: 1960-1988." Latin American Studies Association XVI International Congress, Washington, D.C., 1991 *
  • "Mother's roles, household arrangements and child survival in Brazil." with Stephen D. McCracken, International Seminar on Morbidity, Mortality and Social Policy, CEDEPLAR, Belo Horizonte, 1989
    "The cost of wage inequality: Racial mortality differences." I Seminario de Demografia Economica, CEDEPLAR/INPES, Belo Horizonte, 1989
  • "Racial inequality and child mortality in Brazil." with Charles H. Wood, Latin American Studies Association's XV International Congress, Miami, 1989*
  • "Wage differentials between whites and Asians: The case of Brazil." Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Norfolk, 1989*
  • "The race/class debate: A demographic analysis," Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida Annual Student Conference, Gainesville, 1989
  • "Racial inequality and child mortality in Brazil," with Charles H. Wood, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 1988 *
  • "Wage differentials and racial discrimination in Brazil," with Jeffrey Dwyer, Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Nashville, 1988 *
  • "A racial paradise for whom? A study of income differentials by color and industry, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1980," Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida Annual Student Conference, Gainesville, 1987
  • "Consequences of land settlement in the Brazilian Amazon," with Charles H. Wood, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York, 1986*
  • "Labor substitution strategies and ethnicity in South Florida agriculture," Institute of Latin American Studies Annual Conference, University of Texas, Austin, 1986

Professional Sessions Organized (*Reviewed)

  • "Women, Development and Public Policy," Annual Meetings of the Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2006*
  • "Race, Ethnicity and Gender in the Americas," Annual Meetings of the Latin American Studies Association, Guadalajara, Mexico, 1997 *
  • "Population, Environment and Development in Lowland Tropical South America", Co-organizer, International Workshop, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, 1994
  • "Women, Schooling and Work," Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America, Miami, 1994 *
  • "Child Mortality in Latin America," Annual Meetings of the Pennsylvania Sociological Society, Pittsburgh, 1993 *
  • "Social Impacts of the Brazilian Crisis, 1960-1990," Annual Meetings of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., 1991 *

University Committee Service

  • Provost's Ad Hoc Tenure Review Committee, Political Science, 2007
  • Provost's Ad Hoc Tenure Review Committee, Hispanic Languages, 2007
  • Center for Latin American Studies Student Grant Committee, 2007
  • Undergraduate Curriculum Review Committee, Department of Sociology 2006-2007
  • Promotion and Tenure Review Committee, Department of Sociology 2006-2007
  • Arts and Sciences, Nominating Committee, University of Pittsburgh, 2005-2008
  • Graduate Admissions Committee, Chair, Department of Sociology, 2005-2006
  • Arts and Sciences Honors College Advisory Board, 2005-2008
  • Graduate Admissions Committee, Chair, Department of Sociology, 2004-2006
  • Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Department of Sociology, 2004-2005
  • Search for Inequality Position, Department of Sociology (2002-03)
  • Executive Committee Center for Latin American Studies (2001-02)
  • Chair, Faculty Research Grants Committee, Center for Latin American Studies (2002)
  • Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Sociology (2002)
  • Search for Social Movement's Position, Department of Sociology, 2000
  • Provost’s Ad Hoc Tenure Review Committee. 1996-1998
  • Search for Chair, Department of Sociology, 1997-98
  • University Center for International Studies, Planning and Budget Committee, 1998-
  • Department of Sociology, Planning and Budget Committee, 1997-98
  • Executive Committee, Brazilian Studies Program, 1997-
  • Semester at Sea Advisory Committee, University of Pittsburgh, 1997-
  • Colleague Collaborative Group, Institute for International Studies, 1997-
  • Certificate and Fellowship Committee FLAS, Chair, Center for Latin American Studies, 1998
  • Graduate Admissions Committee, Chair, Department of Sociology, 1997-98
  • Faculty Research Grants Committee, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, 1996-2000
  • Advisory Committee, Center for Latin American Studies, 1996-1998
  • Planning and Budget Committee, Department of Sociology, 1996-97
  • Graduate Admissions Committee, Chair, Department of Sociology, 1996-97
  • Fellowship for Latin American Studies Review Committee, Center for Latin American Studies, 1996
  • Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Sociology, 1996
  • Advisory Committee, Afro-Latin American Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, 1995-
  • Ad Hoc Committee for appointment of Director of Women's Studies, Department of Sociology, 1995
  • Steering Committee, Department of Sociology, 1994-95
  • Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Sociology, 1994-95
  • Provost's Advisory Committee for Women's Concerns, 1993-96
  • Search for Chair, Department of Sociology, 1993-94
  • Search for Gender Position, Department of Sociology, 1993-94
  • Executive Committee, Institute for the Global Study of Race, Ethnicity and Communalism, 1993-
  • Foreign Culture and Language Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, 1993-94
  • Search for Urban Position, Department of Sociology, 1992-93
  • Steering Committee, Department of Sociology, 1991-93
  • Advisory Committee, Latin American Studies, 1990-93
  • Search for the Director of the Center for Latin American Studies, 1991-1992
  • Certificates & Fellowships, Latin American Studies, 1992
  • Graduate Curriculum Committee, Department of Sociology, 1992
  • Admissions Committee, Department of Sociology, 1992
  • Graduate Student Research Grants, Latin American Studies, 1991
  • Affirmative Action Committee, Department of Sociology, 1990-91

Service to the Profession: Manuscript Reviewer

  • Cultural Anthropology
  • Ethnic and Racial Studies
  • Stanford University Press
  • American Journal of Sociology
  • Social Forces
  • Cambridge University Press
  • University of Pittsburgh Press
  • McGraw-Hill
  • Demography
  • Latin American Research Review
  • Social Science Quarterly
  • Contemporary Sociology
  • Sociological Quarterly
  • Sociological Viewpoints
  • Hispanic American Historical Review
  • Penn State Press
  • Sage Publications
  • Pine Forge Press

Professional Memberships

  • American Sociological Association
  • Population Association of America
  • Latin American Studies Association

International Experience

  • Brazil: 23 months (1987-1996)
  • Mexico: 15 months (1983-1987)