John Philip Lovell

West Point, 1955

Be Thou At Peace

Posted by West Point 1955 on February 10, 2016:

John P. Lovell Political Scientist John P. Lovell, professor emeritus of political science at Indiana University and founding director of the Indiana Center on Global Change and World Peace, died on September 15, 1998, at his Bloomington residence, of Parkinson's disease. He was 66 years old. John was born in Racine, Wisconsin, in 1932, the youngest son of Frank and Nyla Metcalf Lovell. He grew up in Madison. He was a 1955 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and served as class historian. Commissioned in Field Artillery, John served most of his three years of active duty in Germany, where he met and later married Joanne Granger. Together for the next four decades, they, with their children Sara and David, eventually established themselves in Bloomington, IN, as John pursued a new career in academia. In 1958, he pursued graduate studies in political science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His graduate school honors included a Knapp Fellowship and a University of Wisconsin Fellowship. He received his Ph.D. in 1962. His doctoral dissertation was titled "The Cadet Phase of Professional Socialization of the West Pointer. John Philip Lovell was professor of political science and founding director of the Indiana Center on Global Change and World Peace (now the Center for the Study of Global Change) and the Indiana Consortium for Security Studies at Indiana University Bloomington almost continuously from 1962 until his death on September 15, 1998. Lovell was born in Racine Wisconsin on August 12, 1932. After graduating from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1955, he earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 1959 and 1962, respectively. Lovell began his teaching career at IUB in 1962, specializing in the relationships between society and the military, U.S. foreign policy, national security policy, international politics, and peace studies. During the span of his 32-year career, Lovell held visiting professorships at the U. S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Army War College, the Strategic Studies Institute in London, the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, and Vassar College; authored or co-authored numerous books, journal articles, chapters in edited volumes, and book reviews; delivered invited, public lectures; and appeared before the media. He retired in 1994 and subsequently was named professor emeritus.

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