Background
Odd Sverre Lovoll was born in Sande, in Møre og Romsdal, Norway.
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A Century of Urban Life: The Norwegians in Chicago Before 1930
(Book by Odd S. Lovoll)
Book by Odd S. Lovoll
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Folk Epic: Bygdelag in America
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Odd Sverre Lovoll
Edit ProfileEducation
Lovoll graduated from the University of North Dakota (Master of Arts 1969) and from the University of Minnesota (Doctor of Philosophy 1973).
Career
He immigrated to the United States in 1946 and is a naturalized United States citizen. Lovoll received his education both in Norway and in the United States, passing university exams at the University of Bergen in 1961 and at the University of Oslo in 1966 and 1967. He served on the faculty of the University of Minnesota from 1967 to 1970.
Foreign thirty years, Lovoll served on the faculty of Saint Olaf College.
He retired from the King Olav V Chair in Scandinavian-American Studies at Saint Olaf College in 2000. Lovoll continues a part-time appointment in History at the University of Oslo.
From 1980 until 2001 he served as publication editor for The Norwegian-American Historical Association. In that capacity he edited and supervised publication articles mainly on Norwegian-American and Scandinavian-American immigration.
He has been published in both Norway and the United States.
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Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
