Odd Lovoll

Odd Lovoll



Professor of History,
King Olaf V Professor of
Scandinavian American Studies
Ph.D., Minnesota, 1973
American Immigration and ethnic history,
Scandinavian history
lovoll@stolaf.edu

Odd S. Lovoll earned his doctorate in U.S. History, specializing in immigration history, at the University of Minnesota. He has served on the faculty of St. Olaf College since 1971 and been publications editor for the Norwegian-American Historical Association since 1980. In 1992 he was appointed to fill the King Olav V Chair in Scandinavian-American Studies. Since 1995 he has held an appointment as Professor II in History at the University of Oslo and teaches there in the fall semester. His published works include A Folk Epic: The Bygdelag in America (1975), The Promise of America: A History of the Norwegian-American People (1984), A Century of Urban Life: The Norwegians in Chicago before 1930 (1988), and The Promise Fulfilled: A Portrait of Norwegian Americans Today (1998), in addition to a large number of articles dealing with Scandinavian-American topics. In 1986 Lovoll was decorated by H.M. King Olav V with the Knight's Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit and in 1989 he was invited to occupy a seat in the history section of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.