Laura L. Lovett is an American historian, and Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh, where she is also the Director of the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program.
Lovett's early work concerned the histories of eugenics, pronatalism, and ideals of American home and family.
She has produced historical studies of the transformative power of Black women's activism in the 1960s and 1970s at the local, national, and transnational level.
[6][5] Lovett is also the founding co-editor of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, which she started with Martha Saxton in 2008;[7] she remained as editor until 2013.
[8] In 2012, she co-edited with Lori Rotskoff a collection of essays appraising the impact of the children's book, record, and TV show, Free to Be… You and Me.