Peggy A. Lovell

Office: 2407 WWPH

Phone:  (412) 648.7566

lovell@pitt.edu

 

 

POSITION

 

Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology

 

INTERESTS

 

Race, Class and Gender; Social Demography; Labor Economics; Latin American Development

 

COURSES

 

  • Comparative Studies of Brazil and the USA
  • Seminar in Population
  • Gender, Race and Class
  • Society and the Environment
  • 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

 

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

 

  • Lovell, Peggy A.

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

  • 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

 

CURRENT RESEARCH

 

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