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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

Fields

Race/Class/Gender Studies; Labor Economics; Latin American Development; Social Demography

Teaching

Race, Gender and Work; Women and Development; Quantitative Methods; Minorities; Population Studies

Selected Publications

2006 Lovell, Peggy A. "Race, Gender and Work in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1960-2000." Latin American Research Review.

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 Comparisons of Inter Group Disparity. Routledge: London.

2002 Lovell, Peggy A.“Gender, race and the struggle for social justice in Brazil.” Reprinted as Pg. 330-349 in Filominia Chioma Steady, (ed.), Black Women, Globalization and Economic Justice. Schenkman Books: Rochester, Vermont.

2000 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.

1999 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.

1998 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

Honors/Awards

1998-2000 Central Research Development Fund, Grant for the Study of “Gender, Race and the Struggle
for Social Justice in Brazil.” University of Pittsburgh

1995/98 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.

1994 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
Post-doctoral Fellow, Mellon Foundation, Population Research Center, University of Texas, Austin, 1993-94

Post-doctoral Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation, Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1989-90

Projects

I am currently writing a series of articles on women of Asian descent in Brazil and on industrial restructuring and occupational segregation in Brazil.