DAVID S.LOVEJOY is a history professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he worked from 1960 to 1983. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in science. Outstanding Bowdoin Educator Award in 1980) and a Ph.D. from Bowdoin College in 1941. In 1954, he graduated from Brown University. LOVEJOY has taught at universities such as Northwestern and Brown, as well as Marlboro College in Vermont.

She has held Guggenheim and Rockerfeller Foundation grants and was a Fulbright Lecturer in Scotland. Religious Enthusiasm in the New World: Heresy to Revolution is his book. His residence is in Madison, Wisconsin, as well as Oxfordshire, England.