[1] Novkov then became a graduate student in political science at the University of Michigan, receiving an MA in 1994 and a PhD in 1998.
[1] Her PhD dissertation was entitled Sex and Substantive Due Process: The Gendered Nature of Constitutional Development.
[1] Novkov's first book, Constituting Workers, Protecting Women: Gender, Law, and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years, was published in 2001.
"[4] To establish the gendered origins of modern employment laws, Novkov draws on hundreds of cases that concerned labor issues between 1873 and 1937, from both the state and federal level.
[9] Novkov's work has been cited in media reports on topics like interracial marriage laws,[13] bias in academia,[14][15] and political divisions in America.